“Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget, nor turn away. . . . Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.†- Proverbs 4:5-6
Reflection
In academics emphasis is frequently placed more on how much one knows, rather than on the process of learning. An environment geared towards test-taking and preeminent reputations can easily take us far from humility, especially if a rigid certainty is elevated above inquiry.
Trappist monk Thomas Keating teaches that humility is “what God most looks for in us,†calling it “an attitude of honesty with God, oneself, and all reality†and “the forgetfulness of self†that’s “the hardest job on earth,†one that paradoxically “doesn’t come about by trying†(The Human Condition 21; Open Mind 164, 67). [Read more…] about Scholar’s Compass: Academics and Humility