Sunday, August 19, 2012

What Is Academic Leadership?

This man is someone who is trying to achieve
  something new even if it is against what everone
is following. He is a leader in some way.




From the two weeks we have been in academic leadership I have learned many new things. So far I think academic leadership is a place where you learn new things to help you in the future. It is a class to make you see your future and help you with being more of a leader, not so much a follower, and were you learn to make your own decisions, good or bad but preferably good. So far we have learned that even if you had a horrible past you can still make it better no matter how late you think it is. You can achieve anything you want if you just try and believe that you can. Some people abuse academic knowledge by using it for themselves and changing the words of the other to help themselves. If someone did something as Mitt Romney did to Jared Diamond I would get very mad. If I did all the work that Diamond did just for someone to take all the credit which is bad enough, but to also change the whole idea just to please him and help him. I would think it is very wrong and would get mad if I did all the work to prove something. Creating academically intellectual leaders can prevent people taking advantage from other people because the people will know what is right and what is wrong. They won't want to take another's work and change it to help themselves. If all the people were academically sophisticated then they would know the difference between right and wrong. It would help make a stronger democratic society by allowing the people to know what is right and what is wrong. It allows the people to make smarter decisions and so that the leaders also know what is going to help the society grow and also make it stronger. Academic leadership is a class where you learn new things to grow stronger.



There is a big difference between a boss and a leader.
A leader has to be someone intelligent and that thinks of others
not just himself. A boss on the other hand is someone who just cares
about himself and not about the people around him.