“You can walk around campus and people are talking, challenging one another. For a teacher, the great event in a classroom is to see another mind come alive. And it happens here every single day.
“When you're immersed in a subject you start to learn in a very different way. You don't just learn philosophy, you get to be a philosopher. It's the same in any of the other disciplines. You become a scientist, a writer, a historian.
“Every day I teach feels like an event. It's not that there's life and there's study. It's literally that studying takes on the form of life. The kind of students who come here and flourish are students who are experience-hungry. They want to experience everything – the mountains, the air, and, most of all, ideas.”
“Colorado College is a community of unusually talented people engaged in our unique intellectual adventure in intimate learning environments. Each of us navigates a personal journey of exploration, growth, service, sport, and travel across time zones and cultural divides, constrained only by the boldness of our ambition. And all this is invigorated by our stunning backdrop of the Rocky Mountains.”
