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Robert Talbert is Professor of Mathematics and Presidential Fellow for the Advancement of Learning at Grand Valley State University.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Tennessee Technological University, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University where he did his dissertation on algebraic topology and homological algebra.

Robert taught in small liberal arts colleges for 14 years before arriving at GVSU in 2011, where he teaches a wide range of courses, conducts research in undergraduate mathematics education, and serves on the faculty senate. He is the author Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty (Stylus, 2017) and a co-author of the forthcoming book Grading For Growth ( ...more

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	Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty 4.41 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty by Robert Talbert (Goodreads Author), Jon Bergmann (Foreword) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“AN ELDER was asked by a certain soldier if God would forgive a sinner. And he said to him: Tell me, beloved, if your cloak is torn, will you throw it away? The soldier replied and said: No. I will mend it and put it back on. The elder said to him: If you take care of your cloak, will God not be merciful to His own image?”
― Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert

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“Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not’.”
― Philip Stokes, Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers

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“Falsehood is merely limitation, the incomplete understanding of the absolute. This entails that, for Hegel, falsified scientific theories are not in themselves wholly wrong, but merely do not tell the whole story. They are limited conceptions of a more all-embracing truth.”
― Philip Stokes, Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers

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“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age”
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“Because mankind can circumvent evolutionary law, it is incumbent upon him, say evolutionary biologists, to develop another law to abide by if he wishes to survive, to not outstrip his food base. He must learn restraint.”
― Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams

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