Ideas for Professors and Instructors for Encouraging People to Learn and Experience Life at its Fullest. The Journal of Student Leadership.

Professors and instructors need to create environments where learners can feel valued, energized, and motivated to increase their knowledge. Professors and instructors need to use and implement different learning methods and styles to encourage, facilitate, and inspire their students to reflect, dialogue, and share new knowledge (Dewey, 1938, p.10; Gilley, Eggland, & Gilley, 2002, p. 3). Taking as an example the role of John Keating, a professor in the movie Dead Poets Society, this paper presents ideas about how professors and instructors may help people to learn effectively and experience their lives at its fullest. Professors and instructors should facilitate new opportunities where people can expand their thinking, to facilitate a process where people can become authentic persons, to facilitate a process where people communicate with passion and inspire others to act, and to facilitate a process where people develop visions that have the potential to ignite motivation in others.