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Article: What honors can do.(Forum on "What is Honors?")
- Article from:
- Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Since becoming honors director at a small regional institution in March, I have had more than a few opportunities to reflect on what honors might be and what it is not, or should not, be. When Dail W. Mullins, Jr. writes of "balancing tensions" between meritocratic and egalitarian tendencies, it is a reminder that honors education is not a single linear pursuit as outsiders often conceive it, "working with the best and the brightest" (what could be easier or more straightforward!), but involves a reconciliation of opposites that is fundamental to paradox. Most of us arrive in our profession with an outlook similar to the colleague of Sara Hopkins-Powell who said that "teaching ...