At the end of the class he wrote a paper arguing that our reading of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and other ethicists had shown him that, properly understood, physical therapy could indeed be an ethical calling. God wouldn’t put anything in your way that would prevent you from completing his plan for you, after all. But scholars are also working hard on research and teaching that imagines vocation in a way that takes into account prejudice and inequity. Vocation will not be the only one that returns students to the question of what they should do with their lives. But it does offer a model of higher education that is already showing signs of success, which is not nothing.

Source: New York Times February 02, 2019 16:18 UTC