We've been encouraged and enabled to take a time of sabbatical soon. Along with that, we've had various reading offered to us. The following quote comes from one of them in which Eugene Peterson compares academic and ministerial sabbatical's purpose and methods. The quotation below caught my attention in the former context.
The life of the mind, teaching and thinking, is strenuous. The mind tires, grows stagnant, begins to repeat itself. The annual invasion of students, their curious and questioning minds strangely mixed with ignorance an sloth, constitutes a formidable challenge to a professor.
~ Eugene Peterson, "Sabbatical is not Study Leave"
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