Brevard College - Pertelote Yearbook (Brevard, NC)

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Experience Is The Best Teacher Experiences come with everything we do and make up what we are. There are several ways in which we experience and the most popular is the personal ex- perience. However, in one life time it is impossible to experience all things firsthand; therefore, we must leam from others. This is one of the reasons there are books and professors to explicate them. This is also one of the chief reasons for institutions of higher learning. Teachers come in all types, shapes, aptitudes, and colors, and each has a different way of coming across. When these unique individuals come into contact with other unique individuals — students — one of two things can happen. The first is resistance of one to the other, causing an emerging gap. The second is unification of teachers, students and experiences, creating the most desirable academic environment. At Brevard it is the second type that usually occurs. The classrooms each contain a special world in which faculty and students come together, blending and drawing out the best each individual has to offer. Outside the classroom things still happen. At a sports event, at the student union, at the Pizza Hut, or while helping a teacher move from one house to another, there is also blending, always to a special end. From each contact with an instructor a student learns. From each personal experience with another ' s personal experience we learn. 20 academics