Contemplating Our Calling for Labor, Leisure and Love, by Ronald L. Jelinek

Having spent nearly a quarter century teaching on college campuses, I have learned that eighteen to twenty-two-year-olds have forever wrestled with three existential questions: “Who created me?” “For what purpose?” “How do I know?” These questions aren’t typically asked aloud. They do not explicitly come up in class.

But they envelop almost every interaction I have with students.

Parents of college-bound children might reasonably find this unsettling. On the one hand, their vulnerable sons and daughters are desperately searching for someone to offer direction and help to life’s most pressing questions. On the other hand, pronoun-wielding PhDs and administrators–many of whom have demonstrably proven themselves incapable of safeguarding their campuses from the onslaught of insanity this past decade–stand at the ready. ….

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