The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings April 17, 2019 A wind in the trees   Over the past weeks we have had several severe storms come through the area. Just before I went to bed last night according to the weather we were to get another today. Several times during the night I awakened and no storm was blowing…

Bird Droppings April 16, 2019 Can we figure a way to filter it all?   “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.” T.S. Elliot   Sifting through the tons of information that bombard us daily is a task, be it emails, text messages, cell…

Bird Droppings April 15, 2019 A man before his time   “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.” Arthur Schopenhauer   Many great thinkers have found their motivation and beginnings in Schopenhauer. Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the first westerners to read and understand Eastern thought. He was well…

Bird Droppings April 13, 2019 “peaceful evolution versus violent revolution”   I have begun reading extensively the past few weeks putting together thoughts for my dissertation at Georgia Southern University and for my own teaching. One of those that passed through my hands these past few days and actually a few minutes ago on my…

Bird Droppings April 12, 2019 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…

Bird Droppings April 11, 2019 How difficult is it finding ourselves within the fog of education?   “The more sand that has escaped the hourglass of life, the clearer we should see through it.” Jean Paul Sartre   As I was looking for thoughts and ideas to start, I actually was going a different direction…

Bird Droppings April 10, 2019 Can we find truth in an untruthful world?   I went back to a book again for the third or fourth time, a book titled; every day is a good day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous women, by the late Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller was the past Chief of The Cherokee Nation…

Bird Droppings April 8, 2019 Pondering and thinking about the lyrics from an old friend   By chance I stood in line behind a young man mid-thirties and I assume his wife at a BBQ place at Stone Mountain Park. I know we can argue it is a memorial to the south carved on a…

Bird Droppings April 5, 2019 Making a difference each day   “Dialogue, is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire   A Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century made famous the term dialogue in his writing. As I…

Bird Droppings April 4, 2019 Should teaching be a habit, a routine or neither?   “Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as – a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed…