Tag: education
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Weekend Thought
It’s as simple as this. On a class trip to a one room schoolhouse a little boy named Skylar left a message: God bless you. Even if you are a grumpy person who hates when people mention God, you have to admit that this kid’s heart is in the right place. There was…
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Who was your favorite teacher?
“Good teachers help you believe in yourself, rather than cultivate a belief in them. They teach you to connect to the divinity within you.” ― Anita Moorjani, Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World My first-grade teacher, Miss Kluba was a stout lady with a pixie haircut. Her determined brows…
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School Days
“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” Gandhi
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Can Education Change The World? (or is it all in our heads?)
“I’ll keep having babies until they stop taking them away.”
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LINK: Why The Classics Matter
LINK: THERE’S NEVER A GOOD TIME TO TAKE CLASSIC LITERATURE FROM CLASSROOMS
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Nature-Deficit Disorder
THE IMPORTANCE OF KIDS IN NATURE NATURE AND ART IN THE 19th CENTURY NATURE-DEFICIT DISORDER
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“I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me.” John Deere
Here’s what happened when I taught school one day: A teacher assigns the now completely boring and overdone 4th grade project of doing a history report on a famous American. The “fun” part is coming in dressed like the figure. (Okay, I think George Washington Carver was kinda cool, but every year there’s like 20…
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Be Like Audubon And Fly
John James Audubon’s father wanted his son to be a navy guy, but luckily for us he flunked the officers’ qualification test and happily went back to studying birds, traipsing around America and drawing what he saw. Back then some birds were so unused to humans that they had no fear and sometimes would alight…
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“People with high self-esteem pose a greater threat to those around them than people with low self-esteem.” Lauren Slater
So the news is out. After years of study experts have discovered that it’s high self-esteem that poses a bigger threat to society than low. In fact low self-esteem seems to pose very little real threat to civilization. On some level didn’t we already know this? The insufferably self-assured student asking the dumbest questions and…
Author Adrienne Morris 