“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.” ― Descartes Those of us who are parents are likely familiar with the strategy of repeatedly reframing a question until you get… Read More ›
Education
A LITTLE SMOKE OFTEN MEANS A FIRE
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft Hope y’all had a fantastic holiday. Here in Tennessee, the weather couldn’t have been better and it was… Read More ›
SCHWINNING AGAIN
“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance… Read More ›
A HUMBLE APOLOGY
“One study of twenty years of data in the United States concluded that “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”4” ― Geoff Mulgan, Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence… Read More ›
OF SEAHORSES, AND OTHER DISTRACTIONS
“I probably didn’t share his feelings – he hoped, really, that I didn’t – but he was no longer interested in socialising; in fact, increasingly he found other people positively bewildering. The interesting ones are like islands, he said: you… Read More ›
DESPITE ALL THE TALKING, NOBODY IS TALKING
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville My writing has been a little erratic this summer and for that, I apologize. As we emerge… Read More ›
OFF SEASON MOVES
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations The education world is… Read More ›
COMMON CORE, LIVE AND THRIVING IN TENNESSEE
“Childhood is a time of curiosity and peril, and nobody comes out of it unscarred.” ― Liz Phair, Horror Stories: A Memoir It was time. Twelve years and 177K miles after purchase, my 2005 Saturn Vue gave up the… Read More ›
HMMM…NOW THAT”S A CHALLENGE
“This story was made up by his neighbours not because they were fanciful or wanted to deceive, but like most tittle-tattle to fill a gap, as few like to confess ignorance, and if people are asked about such or such… Read More ›
WHO SHOULD BE IN CHARGE?
“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.” ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow Earlier in the week, I… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 