Founders Day: A salute to excellence

Indiana University's Founders Day awards ceremony will be March 1 at 2 p.m. at the IU Auditorium in Bloomington. The ceremony honors excellence in teaching, service, research and scholarship university-wide and students on the IUB campus. IU celebrates its 177th birthday this year.

IU Home Pages salutes the 1997 faculty award winners, each of whom has touched the lives of students in unique ways and thus "affected eternity."

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry Brooks Adams in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

"A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Elective Affinities, 1808

"Good teaching makes a difference in a life. It opens up the subject matter by making the learner enthusiastic about it, knowledgeable about the right questions and the means to seek out the best answers, with an eagerness to do so that extends through an entire life."

Kenneth Gros Louis, IU vice president of academic affairs and Bloomington campus chancellor

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

Anatole France

"Well, remember me sometimes. I shall always remember you."

Mr. Chips in Goodbye, Mr. Chips

"The teachers who've left the deepest impression on me conveyed not merely knowledge, but a passion for knowledge. By their commitments and their conduct, they helped me to imagine how I might lead my own life."

Scott Sanders, Distinguished Professor of English, IUB

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