“And Paris! All afternoon in someone’s attic We raised our glasses And drank to the asses Who ran the world and turned neurotic.” ― Galway Kinnell If one looks for samples of irony, they really need to look no… Read More ›
Education
WHO’S LISTENING?
“Perhaps the most indispensable thing we can do as human beings, every day of our lives, is remind ourselves and others of our complexity, fragility, finiteness, and uniqueness.” ― Antonio R. Damasio Yesterday I came across a lengthy piece… Read More ›
MORE SOUND AND FURY, BUT WILL IT PROVE SIGNIFICANT?
“In my opinion,” said the Superintendent slowly, “an arm-chair review of a case is often far more profitable than any number of enquiries and cross-examinations. You get a better perspective. More wood. Fewer trees.” ― John Bude, The Cornish Coast… Read More ›
FANNING THE FLAMES
“Just got back into the country. For the record: teachers rock!!!!” – Penny Schwinn The above are words posted on the Facebook page of Tennessee’s Commissioner of Education. Mrs. Schwinn goes on to inform folks that she’s been out… Read More ›
THE CIRCUS GRINDS ON
“Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic countries. The acronym is well deserved,” ― Hugo Mercier, The Enigma of Reason Years ago I was tending bar on a slow New Years’ Eve. I had roughly 10 people at the bar, among… Read More ›
DON’T LET THE REVOLUTION DIE WITH A WIMPER
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.” ― Karl Popper Over the holiday weekend,… Read More ›
DAMMIT REF! I’M MAD!
“So I’ve given it one. I call it scout mindset: the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were. Scout mindset is what allows you to recognize when you are wrong, to seek out… Read More ›
DAMN RIGHT I GOT THE BLUES
“In a certain sense this was true, and truth is always true in a certain sense;” ― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights People always think that when the classrooms close, things calm down on the education policy front. Nothing could be… Read More ›
TIMES THAT TRY MEN’S, AND WOMEN’S, SOULS
“The world is not a prison house, but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.” ― Edwin Arlington Robinson The week before independence Day is a time… Read More ›
WHO’S REALLY CALLING THE SHOTS?
“Trust the story … the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can’t: the story can only ever be itself.” ― James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still In the Spring, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a new funding… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 