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🔵 Can We Still See the Good? | @AndrewDKaufman buff.ly/AmnCBED
One of the hardest lessons I’m still learning is how to stay open when the truth turns out to be more painful—and more complicated—than we hoped.
I didn’t learn that in a faculty workshop or from a book. I began learning it in a moment I didn’t expect: when one of my students spoke a truth I wasn’t ready for.
Let me take you there.
When the Story Breaks
A few years ago, I was back on campus after finishing the latest session of Books Behind Bars, the class I created where my university students study Russian literature alongside incarcerated youth. We’d just wrapped up our final visit to the correctional center. The students were back in their usual classroom seats—jackets slung over chair backs, legal pads and laptops open, coffee cups cooling on desks.
From past experience, I knew that the final debrief day was always emotionally charged, a time to make sense of what the experience had meant. We were winding down when one usually quiet student raised her hand. There was a tremor in her voice.
“Professor Kaufman,” she said, “there’s something I need to share with the group.”...
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