This year is the 50th anniversary of my university. Our motto is "Hominis Dignitati" (For Human Dignity), based on the "belief that all human beings are created in the image of God and entrusted by God with responsibility for themselves, others and the world (campus document). Although I am not a practicing Christian, I do find myself believing in my students' likeness to gods--that these human beings warrant the respect and awe traditionally associated with divine worship. At these times, I find I teach more effectively and create community. I also like the active agency implied by this belief, that we have the responsibility to do something actively to realize human dignity. I suspect that operationalizing this motto is at least one of the goals of our university's Institute for Religion and Culture, Institute for Social Ethics, and Human Relations Department. I wrote the piece below ("A Best Kept Secret") for a Swiss language teaching publication once and it speaks to these things in everyday teacher terms: