I met Amber Mitchell online.
( Geez, it sounds like we’re those cheap, tawdry night time websurf babes!)
So sorry, Amber!…
Let me rephrase that…
I really met her on a conference call, and got to know her a bit better online.
She is delightful…
Upbeat, cheerful, with a great sense of humor.
When she sent me her picture, she wanted to know if she would be an alien like Dr. Brooks?
That, my friends, is an elite privilege, reserved solely for him…
which translates into: “I would really like to continue this blogging gig…
so that picture won’t be showing up again…
for awhile.
She has four children, ranging from 2-9 years of age.
Amber has known about Leadership Education for 3 ½ yrs.
Her greatest Leadership Education strength:
The ability to help others recognize that they, too, can be successful at Leadership Education…
and to encourage them to go for it.
Her weakness:
Realizing when to push ahead and when to let nature take its course.
She’s very grateful for, and inspired by, all the wonderful examples of Leadership Education she’s found nationwide as our community has expanded from coast to coast.
(I’m grateful that she was so willing to whip this up in all of her “free time”…
so that we could gain further insight into why your own Liberal Arts Education is so very important!)
What have I learned from taking the Liberal Arts classes?
I have learned more about myself and what my weaknesses are. More than anything else, in taking the Liberal Arts classes offered by Face to Face with Greatness Seminars, I have learned what my strengths are.
I have learned that I need to know more about world history and human nature so I can facilitate and encourage learning and change in myself and others.
I must know how some of the greatest minds in western history inspired people; in order to be able to inspire and share my quest for important knowledge with others, my children included.
I need to encourage them to seek their own education, no matter how hard.
I am striving to learn how to balance my study time along with my other daily responsibilities.
It would be so easy to say, “I will get to this later when my kids are older, I have more time, money, etc.”
However, I have grown in my understanding as to why I need a great Liberal Arts Education.
As I pursue an education in the Great Books of the Western World, I have started to realize exactly just how much ordinary people are capable of doing.
I have begun to see that I am capable of learning difficult concepts and have started developing faith in the process of learning.
I know that it helps me immensely to have the insights that Dr. Brooks and others in my class share about the readings we study.
It gives me an understanding of another’s viewpoint or interpretation of the reading; whether or not I agree with it.
I plan on taking as many liberal arts classes as I can in my personal journey towards a leadership education.
Amber Mitchell
Tri-Cities, WA
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