The daily meanderings of a teacher

Author: birddroppings

  • Often we find ourselves in a fog of education

    Bird Droppings June 13, 2018 Often we find ourselves in a fog of education   I will be heading to my friends Rosary memorial service shortly. I got up as I do a bit later on Thursday’s and walked a mile in the pool. I tend to meditate and wander in my thinking ponder as…

  • Why is seeking peace so difficult?

    Bird Droppings June 13, 2018 Why is seeking peace so difficult?   Around the world armies are moving as I write. There are missiles are being aimed and tanks rolling. War is a profit driving machine for industry and sadly more so about money than ideology. I have always been against war and always have…

  • Keeping the stories going remembering a dear friend

    Bird Droppings June 12, 2018 Keeping the stories going remembering a dear friend   In years gone by I would visit, take photos and offer my two cents at the Foxfire Approach to Teaching Course put on by Piedmont College for graduate students and teachers already in the classroom in Mountain City Georgia. This course…

  • Can you be dreaming, imagining, thinking, pondering and reflecting all in a few minutes?

    Bird Droppings June 11, 2018 Can you be dreaming, imagining, thinking, pondering and reflecting all in a few minutes?   I drove to south east Georgia over nine years ago to take my oral exams for my doctorate. This was basically a follow-up face to face with my committee of professors and in turn responding…

  • The head of education in the US should not be an idiot

    Bird Droppings June 9, 2018 The head of education in the US should not be an idiot   It was nearly eight years ago I was reading an article actually an interview with Arne Duncan, the former Secretary of Education. I selected a few choice quotes from his interview to savor and ponder for a…

  • Trying to teach an unteachable child

    Bird Droppings June 8, 2018 Trying to teach an unteachable child   “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” John F. Kennedy…

  • I am always thinking about where I am going

    Bird Droppings June 6, 2018 I am always thinking about where I am going   Two years ago this time it was hectic. I drove down to Savannah to present my portion of a new book coming out edited by Dr. Bill Reynolds, Forgotten Places: Critical studies in rural education. The book is based on…

  • I wonder what my favorite store is; Then again is it even important?

    Bird Droppings June 5, 2018 I wonder what my favorite store is; Then again is it even important?   Interesting I had two thoughts earlier in the week as I started the day out. One I heard on the radio going to get some air in my wife’s tire in her car from a satellite…

  • Teaching and or 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

    Bird Droppings June 4, 2018 Teaching and or 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu   I just finished my first year of teaching retirement from high school. Thinking back my last day was rough but not quite as bad, tense and hectic as my first on September 11, 2001. I began my last…

  • Why should we do more?

    Bird Droppings June 2, 2018 Why should we do more?   “Choices are sacred to life’s journey. They lie along the path that all of us must follow for ourselves. An important Cherokee lesson is that if you involve yourself in any decision, you also experience the consequences of that decision.” Dr. J.T. Garrett, Meditations…