{"id":48,"date":"2018-04-03T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/?p=48"},"modified":"2018-04-04T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:18:37","slug":"sampie-terreblanche-an-intellectual-giant-of-economics-who-opened-minds-to-social-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/sampie-terreblanche-an-intellectual-giant-of-economics-who-opened-minds-to-social-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampie Terreblanche: an intellectual giant of economics who opened minds to social role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prof Terreblanche left an indelible mark on the thinking patterns of his students, writes Michael Jordaan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sampie, as Prof Sampie Terreblanche was affectionately known to all at the University of Stellenbosch, had a favourite teaching trick. He would ask each of his 1,000-plus first-year economics students to write an essay on why we need economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Sampie would then proceed to read the answers back to the class and discuss the merits and flaws of these views with us. Young adults who had been taught to memorise facts in school but never to use critical thinking faculties produced questionable responses like: &#8220;it is our Calvinistic duty to grow the economy&#8221; or &#8220;economic growth is the only option that humans have&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Terreblanche left an indelible mark on the thinking patterns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekon.sun.ac.za\/sampieterreblanche\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}