Learning is always personal. That's the heart of education.

This. "No student acquires knowledge in the abstract; learning is always personal. Furthermore, learning never takes place in a vacuum; it is always contextual" (Style, 1988).

When we walk in or log on to our classrooms, we are entering the lives of other humans, with their joys and pains and struggles and victories.

And, as faculty, we enter that same classroom with our own joys and pains and struggles and victories.

All teaching and learning is personal.

Perhaps that's the best thing about it.