Intellectual Standards
This standard is when it all makes sense together.
What is logic?
The goal or objective.
What is purpose?
Recognition of the need to be true to one's own thinking.
What is Integrity?
The ability to judge others without a good self reflection.
What is Because I'm Baptist?
This standard considers another point of view.
What is breadth?
Defines the problem.
What is the Question at Issue?
A need to treat all viewpoints alike, without reference to one's own feelings.
What is fairmindedness?
What this whole class is about, not the final product.
What is the learning process?
The foundation of all of the Intellectual Standards
What is Clarity?
This element is presupposition.
What is assumptions?
The need to imaginatively put oneself in the place of others in order to genuinely understand them.
What is empathy?
You can never be this on your own land.
What is a prophet?
This determines if this is the most important problem to consider.
What is significance?
This is data, facts and observations.
What is information?
Knowing the limit's of one's knowledge.
What is humility?
The smartest person in the world in which all others are judged against.
Who is Grandma?
This standard determines how it relates to the problem.
What is relevance?
The frame of reference.
What is the point of view?
The need to use intellectual insights and truths in spite of difficulties, obstacles and frustrations.
What is perseverance?
A necessary, annoying, repetitive one word question.
What is why?