“It always gets late with you. – Is that a compliment?” ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol As a public, we don’t do nuance well, if we do it all. Our policy conversations tend to be… Read More ›
Education
Who Is Serving Who?
“There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think–which is fundamentally a moral problem–must be induced before the power is developed. Most people, whether men or women, wish above all else… Read More ›
Fables of the Reconstruction
“The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about.” ― Michael Meade Tennessee’s Commissioner of Education Lizzette Reynolds just can’t seem… Read More ›
A Whisper Becoming A Prayer
“I know the word “incompetent” from my father. He uses it when there’s something political on TV, or when he and Uncle Miki are quarreling about something political they’ve seen on TV. Incompetence means doing something even though you haven’t… Read More ›
A Grim Anniversary, A Useless State Report Card, and New District Chiefs – Its Easter Time In Tennessee
“A talent for following the ways of yesterday’, declared King Wu-ling in 307 BC, ‘is not sufficient to improve the world of today.” ― Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World This week marks the… Read More ›
Who Carried You?
“One close friend of the Flemings remembers a time when three couples were relaxing in the sun at Goldeneye. The men, in jest, each told the story of how they’d had their first woman. After all was said and done,… Read More ›
It Is Not A Math Problem, It Is A Cultural Problem
“If you can’t annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.” ― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim Monday, the House version of the Educational Freedom Savings Account bill was heard in the House Government Ops Committee. It was another long,… Read More ›
I Want To Know What Love Is
“These people’s souls are dead: their thoughts are fixed in straight inflexible lines; and they are merciless as only a convinced and stupid man can be.” ― A. I. Kuprin, The River of Life, and Other Stories Growing up,… Read More ›
You Can Not Lose What You Don’t Already Possess.
“But that was the trouble with children, Sir Stephen reflected. They were confoundedly liable to pattern themselves upon one’s conduct, when one would rather they simply did what they were told.” ― Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown Let’s… Read More ›
Can We Talk Policy Instead Of Personality?
“In my experience, those who have the greatest respect for the rules also take the most enjoyment in breaking them.” ― Lucy Foley, The Guest List Life comes at you fast and oft in an unpredictable manner. Late last… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 