{"id":84,"date":"2015-04-20T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T01:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2021-12-07T10:40:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:40:26","slug":"duty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eeqrN3Bfro8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neil Tyson&#8217;s story<\/a> of how Carl Sagan influenced his career should be Rule Number One for all educators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have this duty to respond to students who are inquiring about the universe as a career path, to respond to them in the way that Carl Sagan responded to me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carl Sagan&#039;s influence on Neil Tyson.\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eeqrN3Bfro8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And Robert Talbert reminds us, <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blognetwork\/castingoutnines\/2014\/04\/08\/the-problem-is-not-the-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The problem is not the students.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Education is about students. It is about caring for them, pushing them, helping them, working with them rather than against them. Take a good long look at your reasons for being in higher ed. If students are not at the center, you are doing it wrong.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<em>More to come soon.<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Tyson&#8217;s story of how Carl Sagan influenced his career should be Rule Number One for all educators: &#8220;I have this duty to respond to students who are inquiring about the universe as a career path, to respond to them in the way that Carl Sagan responded to me.&#8221; And Robert Talbert reminds us, &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/duty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codykirkpatrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}