Mr. Summers' "speech"

Fun--I'm having fun--thinking about why it all works--it all develops itself--and that's what gets your excited to teach--fun learning should be fun--to those in Philosophy class who haven't participated much; we need to remove the shackles of our fear and anxiety over speaking up and not sounding perfect--if ever the was in imperfect discipline or academic subject it is philosophy and its admission that all of our certainty is suspect and subject to revision and that we must be able to question and to question is to use our faculty of reason and to live in the questions ala Rainer Maria Rilke--live in the questions and enjoy the process--as it is more about process than it is about scoring points and achievement, it all has it's rightful place, and accolades are nice--however, they mask the journey and the processing of experience that are essential to the realization and often times we expect epiphanies when goals are reached, only to find a hollow feeling an emptiness as expectations unfulfilled leave us wanting and confused about what it is we are supposed to be feeling and where our expectations align with reality and how our human thirst for knowledge and experience won't let ourselves rest upon goals and accolades when we know there is always more to be done, more to be seen, more to be shared, more to absorb, more to contemplate and learn from, more of the vastness and expansion of the universe to taste, see, feel, hear and smell--this cycle of the season and life's eternal cycles, unending, unchanging, but promoting the illusion of change thanks to the essence of time, this, this great big embracing of the big unanswerable questions; of the life of the mind, of the curiosities and wonder and mystery of the world--yes--this--is--what--we--seek.