Factsheet about U of T: http://www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca/facts.asp
Statement of Institutional Purpose: http://www.utoronto.ca/statement.htm
When we say we’ll reach and to tell others about God, do we simply go up and talk to them?
How can we reach if we do not know what picture these people and ourselves are situated or embedded within?
Do we know what our surrounding is?
Do we know in what ways and how much the surrounding have molded these people we wanted to reach so far?
Do we as the "reachers" have the ability to reflect upon how much this surrounding has molded even ourselves so far?
So doesn’t it make sense if we understand what type of picture and structure are we part of right now?
And then ask ourselves how much we have been molded by this institution?
How much of the molding are you aware of right now? How much of the molding do you should you desire or accept?
What is U of T about? What is important in this academic institution? Is this only an academic institution or more? Is It actually shaping the ways and worldview of those who are graduating from it?
- What is prominent (and probably important) at U of T (this institution, not only its structure, but also its beliefs, values)?
o Or what is the first thing that U of T says when they introduce themselves to you?
o What do the first thing they tell you when you read the school’s fact sheets, school’s articles?
- What is not so important (not so prominent) in this institution?
- What drives it to continue?
- What does U of T believe in? (Science, is this the basis of their excellence?)
- What do they claim about their “science”, this “objective way of observation”?
- Do you think what they say is really true? What part of what the profs tell you are true? Which parts aren’t?
- What are the students told to believe in? What is the reality that U of T claim to its students?
- How receptive are the students? Do they buy the idea or the framework? Look at the classmates in your classes/lectures, the students in your program/faculty/college. How many of them do they accept the ideas of this school? How many of them do they question?
- How many of them come out as a mold of U of T?
- Brian Walsh’s Truth is strange than it used to be. Ch 2, the example of the joke among the Umpires to convey how we see “the reality”. What is reality? 3 umpires. “I call them as they are”, “I call them as I see them”, “They ain’t nothing until I call them”.
- Which one does U of T claim? Which one do you claim as a Christian? Which one do we as a Christian group claim?
- Do you know what this school aims to do? (Mission Statement?)
- What do you think of what they are trying to do? How much have they accomplished it on you?
- Do you want this influence from the school? How much don’t you want it?
http://www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca/facts.asp Factsheet About U of T
http://www.utoronto.ca/statement.htm Statement of Institutional Purpose
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