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WEDNESDAY AUG. 22 -- Let me start by saying that last year was my first Education Week in over a decade and I forgot how demanding it could be. I spent the week last year hiking from one end of campus to the other listening to people I had never heard of. I found a few good presentations along with a few that were not what I expected. At the end of each day, my feet hurt, I was hungry and feeling like I had missed out on better presentations.
That is why this year I decided to keep it simple. I spent the entire day Tuesday, with one exception, in the Wilkinson Student Center (WSC) listening to presentations by Millet, Scoresby, Peterson, McConkie, Christensen, and Bott. I spent the last hour with some guy named Wilcox and his son talking about missionary work in the Harold B. Lee Librar...
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Wednesday, Sept. 14
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Farmington area
Livermore Falls, Wednesday, July 8: Stained Glass concert, 6-8 p.m., Gazebo, downtown.
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9
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Wednesday, Nov. 10
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22 -- Hungry, thirsty, physically exhausted but filled spiritually, my family and I emerged from the Wilkinson Center Tuesday evening hours after the sun had set. On the morrow, BYU Campus Education Week would continue.
As we walked to the car, our thoughts were of rest. We could hardly wait to surrender our eyelids and cross into the land of sleep and dreams, a magical place free of collegiate rivalries and . . .
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22 -- The center piece of Education Week is always the weekly devotional. Over the years my life has been blessed by the teachings of Elder Richard G. Scott. As an educator, I have heard and applied his teachings about gospel teaching and learning in the classroom. When I heard that Elder Scott would speak at the devotional, I told my wife and two daughters that this would be a talk that you could study, over and over again.
Sure enough, this talk is an ipod collectibles. He reminded us that we learn by what we hear and feel and that when we write down the things we learn, we signal to the Holy Ghost that we want to learn. Revelation begins to flow as we become an active participant in the learning process. Equal attention was given to the teacher and the learner in this...
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22 -- Tuesday was a really wonderful and uplifting day.
Elder Scott spoke about how to obtain spiritual guidance. He gave powerful counsel about seeking divine light, praying continually, hearkening to the guidance the Lord wants to give us and then expressing gratitude.
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Wednesday
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Wednesday, Oct. 12