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"What I teach is students. I don't teach subjects. If you teach subjects, you're in the business of being king and then the students are slaves. I don't like that." Gerald Shinn, 1991 Teaching students was both passion and chief activity of Dr. Gerald Shinn at UNCW from 1967(when UNCW was Wilmington College) to 1995. This North Carolina native served 28 years as a professor of philosophy and religion. A self-described teacher of "young-uns" (an affectionate term he used for all who came to learn from him), Gerald Shinn founded the Albert Schweitzer International Prizes for Medicine, Music and Humanities, established and built the collection for the Museum of World Cultures, was the 1994 recipient of the State's highest award for contributions to the human race, the O. Max Gardner Award, founded the North Carolina Educational, Historical, and Scientific Foundation, founded the UNCW Institute for Human Potential, conducted the Parnassus on Wheels project which was a one-man effort to combat illiteracy in the state of North Carolina, established the annual Living Treasure of North Carolina Award and the biennial National Living Treasure Award, and has been noted as the inspiration for establishing UNCW's Honors Scholars Program. Read of the extraordinary symbolism behind the making of the Shinn Plaza by clicking here! Further Reading: On What Makes A University, by Dr. Shinn Information and Details on the O. Max Gardner Award Other works of interest by Dr. Shinn at Randall Library Schweitzer and Jesus / Gerald H. Shinn The college, curriculum and reformation / Gerald Shinn The tectonic functions of the illuminations of the Dresden ms. of the sachsenspiegel / Gerald Shinn
Read of the extraordinary symbolism behind the making of the Shinn Plaza by clicking here! |
