Watching my former students graduate last evening set the stage for the future. They are moving on, or have moved on -- and now conceptualizations about them (as students) must also change. Now they are colleagues; they are friends; they are fellow-travelers on life's many journeys.
So when we meet them in the street, or at a shop, or in a restaurant -- a whole new way of thinking and reacting should be generated.
Do any students actually grasp this? Do they know their status has changed in the eyes and hearts of those who so carefully worked with them while they were students? Do they get what the real world is about?
I wonder.
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