Bird Droppings July 3, 2010 Belong I walked out perhaps two hours earlier with our White West highland Terrier for her morning break from missing my youngest son. She was stretching and doing her duty in the early morning sounds that surround us here in the country. Overhead a half moon was still literally high…

Bird Droppings July 2, 2010 Being who we are It has been nearly six years since I was directly involved in Foxfire teaching at Piedmont College. I sat through my own training program which at the time was an experimental approach in the Piedmont Specialist program. One of the reasons I chose to drive to…

Bird Droppings July 1, 2010 A reflection on a pond or window of two I brought a couple of boxes of junk into my class room today. Teachable moment items for when school starts back collected from my father and mother’s house. Mom has been getting his things sorted through and it must be genetic…

Bird Droppings June 30, 2010 Learning and teaching are inevitable – if we try “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.” Dr. Mortimer J. Adler Dr. Adler founded the Center for the Study of…

Bird Droppings June 29, 2010 Researching Education a bit With the bulk of education in the early 1900’s following closely the Industrial Revolution and mass production, a few great thinkers took the concept of the individual child in psychology and education in new directions as to its relationship to children. How children were viewed became…

Bird Droppings June 28, 2010 Pondering the idea of faith “Modern technology advanced in such tiny increments for so long that we never realized how much our world was being altered, or the ultimate direction of the process. But now the speed of change is accelerating logarithmically. It is apparent that developing a language and…

Bird Droppings June 27, 2010 Should we be trying to fill a liter bottle The current educational trends are analogous to trying to pour five gallons of material into a liter bottle using a funnel. As you try obliviously a large portion of material spills out and is discarded or lost. I use a liter…

Bird Droppings June 26, 2010 Finding Foxfire in the Kalahari I was walking about the yard and along the side of our nearby dirt road taking pictures of wildflowers and grasshoppers among other things I found a few days ago. I spent several minutes trying to photograph a seed from a broom sage plant floating…

Bird Droppings June 25, 2010 What we know “The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.” Booker T. Washington Yesterday I received an email containing a letter from a well known professor of education at the University of…

Bird Droppings June 24, 2010 Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln Perhaps in the scheme of things there are people who are inherently grouchy and or by Lincolns view they simply want to…