“The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue” ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes I’m going to let you in on a little secret this morning. For… Read More ›
Education
A CORE PROBLEM
“Our values are the same. We disagree on policy, but we don’t disagree on humanity, we don’t disagree about love and compassion. I think that’s true for all of us — it’s just that we get lost in our fear of… Read More ›
A QUESTION ON NUANCE
“A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.” ― Thomas Edison “When are you getting your vaccination shot?” My wife asked early last week. “I don’t know. Sometime soon.” “Why haven’t you already gotten… Read More ›
TOWARDS A MORE PERFECT UNION
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville These days I perpetually find myself questioning which will prove more destructive to America, the… Read More ›
IGNORANCE OR INTENTION
“A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.” ― Czeslaw Milosz Most people enter… Read More ›
IT IS NEVER AS INNOCUOUS AS IT APPEARS UPON FIRST BLUSH
“What was educationally significant and hard to measure has been replaced by what is educationally insignificant and easy to measure. So now we measure how well we taught what isn’t worth learning.” —Arthur L. Costa; Professor of Education, Emeritus; CA… Read More ›
THE CONTINUAL REPACKAGING AND RESELLING OF EDUCATION POLICY
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” ― Primo Levi Legend has it that American’s once appreciated… Read More ›
A CONTINUATION OF A DISHONEST CONVERSATION
“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is… Read More ›
MORE CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON
“A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say, “We did this ourselves.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ch Hope y’all had a great Easter weekend. For us… Read More ›
YOU CAN’T PRACTICE MAGIC WITHOUT MAGICIANS
“While his school was closed due to an outbreak of plague in 1666–67, twenty-five-year-old Isaac Newton showed his professor, Isaac Barrow, what research he was conducting in his spare time. Barrow immediately gave up his job as a professor and… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 