The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 4, 2017 Should we be 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…

Bird Droppings May 3, 2017 Why do children do what they do?   “Our task is to make our children into disciples of the good life, by our own actions toward them and toward other people. This is the only effective discipline in the long run. But it is more arduous, and takes longer, than…

Bird Droppings May 2, 2017 Is not every day a new journey begun?   “School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.”…

Bird Droppings May 1, 2017 Pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfalls   It has been five years since I was staying at the Sylvan Mills Bed and Breakfast in a room literally over a waterfall. I went up to North Georgia to recharge perhaps another word might be to rekindle my passion for…

Bird Droppings April 28, 2017 Are you a Weginahsa?   “The work of a teacher – exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same – is at its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations, a calling that shepherds a multitude of other callings. It is an activity that is intensely…

Bird Droppings April 27, 2017 Is a circle a confined space or infinite undertaking?   My own philosophical meandering focuses on life as a circle. My thinking today revolves around that thought. Does a circle have a beginning and or an end? As learning begins often with a question so today a start and a…

Bird Droppings April 26, 2017 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 25, 2017 Going up a mountain takes effort   I am looking forward to my next trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia. It is the site of the Foxfire Museum property and was the site of the Piedmont College’s teacher’s class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching. My oldest son…

Bird Droppings April 24, 2017 Watching a hawk fly by   I was able to attend only a few track meets over the past few years and as always I did take a few photos as I tend to do. I recall about five years ago when I was not able to get to the…

Bird Droppings April 23, 2017 What does it take for that light bulb to go on?   Yesterday I headed to Statesboro and Georgia Southern University to get back on track for my doctorate. It has been nearly ten years since my doctorial cohort at Georgia Southern ended and we began the journey on our…