The daily meanderings of a teacher

Category: The Foxfire Approach to Teaching

  • How hard it is to find the trail in the search for knowledge?

    Bird Droppings May 14, 2013 How hard it is to find the trail in the search for knowledge? “All things in the world are two. In our minds we are two, good and evil. With our eyes we see two things, things that are fair and things that are ugly…. We have the right hand…

  • Is innocence more than a definition?

    Bird Droppings May 13, 2013 Is innocence more than a definition? I start my mornings standing in the dark listening before I drive to school. Listening wondering pondering I might say. When I sit down and begin to write I will many times pick up my ear phones and put on something I enjoy Carlos…

  • Children learn what they live do they not?

    Bird Droppings May 12, 2013 Children learn what they live do they not? It is such a beautiful morning and quiet outside, I had the opportunity to sit and meditate for nearly an hour just after the rising sun pushed across the wheat fields behind our house. I took pictures through a large portion of…

  • Searching for, looking at and finally placing those pieces into the puzzle

    Bird Droppings May 10, 2013 Searching for, looking at and finally placing those pieces into the puzzle “The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ”social worker” -judge.” Dr. Michael Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas It has been…

  • It is said dreams do not stand alone

    Bird Droppings May 8, 2013 It is said dreams do not stand alone “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard Bach It has been so many years since I first experienced the whimsical book Jonathan Livingston Seagull,…

  • Looking for the passion in life or is it just obsession?

    Bird Droppings May 7, 2013 Looking for the passion in life or is it just obsession? “All games have an important and probably decisive influence on the destinies of the players under ordinary social conditions; but some offer more opportunities than others for life long careers and are more likely to involve innocent bystanders.” Dr.…

  • Looking for and clearing a pathway

    Bird Droppings May 7, 2013 Looking for and clearing a pathway “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” Elwyn Brooks White Often I reflect on the journey of life and the many directions I…

  • Always try and see through new eyes wide open

    Bird Droppings May 5, 2013 Always try and see through new eyes wide open “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” Dolly Parton It has been nearly seven years since we last moved and seems we might stay here a while. I recall seven or…

  • A mother is………a poem

    Bird Droppings May 5, 2013 A mother is………a poem I do not recall my birth so it is difficult to say anything actually significant other than from my own mothers and fathers perception. Somewhere I have a photo of my father at the doorway looking in while my mother is holding me. It seems back…

  • Living a moment at a time

    Bird Droppings May 3, 2013 Living a moment at a time On Wednesday evening I walked out into my yard with my faithful dog and from the field behind us a red tailed hawk soared around once and landed in a large dead black walnut tree next to us. It was only seventy five feet…