kind, and surprisingly intellectual. I mean, I will say that. I think those classes were just some of the best I’ve ever taught, and I was just genuinely surprised at how well they went, and how deep the responses were. I could go on and on. Woodberry is a place like nothing I’ve ever been to. I mean, the very fact it’s on a 1500-acre-campus was surprising. The fact there’s got a river running through it. All that stuff was surprising to me, yeah. Asa: To the Woodberry you may have taught, or those who you have not taught, is there any advice you could give them as they go into college? Kent: I think you guys are really prepared for college. I would say to continue to do what you’ve been doing at this school. Everything I saw there suggests you’re really being prepared for that experience. I mean the one thing I’d say about college to all students––Woodberry or otherwise––is just take general education courses seriously. I think a lot of students––and I was one of them––decided on a major way too soon and said, Oh I’ve gotta be this because my parents are! or My own upbringing led me to think I’ve got to go into this particular field, and the great value of general education is that it just asks if you are really doing what you want to be doing. And so I would just say to
everybody when you go into gen-ed courses, don’t regard those as ‘have too’ courses, regard those as opportunities for exploration. Asa: Our final question of today is probably the most important question: why the mustache? Kent: I’ve had a mustache since I was, I don’t know, in my twenties, and I’ve never gotten rid of it! I shaved it off once, and my fouryear-old daughter looked at me like she didn’t know who I was, and then I just regrew it. It’s just been with me. Asa: Have you never grown a beard? Or has it always just been the mustache? Kent: I can’t. My beard is terrible. My beard is scraggly and ugly, but I’ve got a great mustache! Asa: Well thank you so much for meeting with us, Mr. Meyers. Kent: You are absolutely welcome. It’s good to see you three guys again. v
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