“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 ›
Education
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 ›
A QUESTIONABLE OFFENSE
“The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.” ― Bernard Wolfe, Limbo It was about 8:30 last night, I was getting ready for the nightly family dog walk. The phone buzzed indicating an incoming… Read More ›
IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM
“You’re nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed.” ― E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime Growing up, the most popular show in the country was “Dallas”. For those of you too… Read More ›
WHO’S ZOOMING WHO?
“You’ll never decide what you want until you’ve decided who you are.” ― Noël Coward Who’s in charge of education policy in Tennessee? It seems like a pretty straightforward question, right? Those with a passing knowledge might answer that… Read More ›
WHAT’S A SWEETHEART LIKE YOU, DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS?
“Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king.” – Bob Dylan “We got a lot of kings out here.” – TC Weber I’ve spent a lot of time this week… Read More ›
RE-IMAGINATION, OR JUST REBRANDING
“Once I called Miami City Hall a “bribe factory,” and another time described Tallahassee as a “festival of whores.” Too subtle? Possibly.” – Carl Hiaasen An interesting event occurred Last Friday, MNPS announced its new literacy initiative, Literacy Re-imagined…. Read More ›
CONSTRUCTING UNICORN BARNS
“These stories aren’t told for the same reason you can’t go to the circus and see yetis riding on unicorns while playing bagpipes built out of skittles.” – Peter Greene, CURMUDGUCATION I have two kids enrolled in MNPS. One… Read More ›
TO LAUGH, OR TO CRY
“The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to detect its false notes because in our case the flute is being played by the rats.” ― Dimitris… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 