The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings March 20, 2017 Can we really find answers?   Several years ago I would have said there were answers to almost any question that could be asked. Today sitting here I wonder granted first you have to ask what is the question or questions but I have a different attitude now sort of…

Bird Droppings March 17, 2017 Can we teach again a love of learning   This has been a perplexing time of my life. A few weeks back a car wreck young man was killed and his passenger who was a good friend of my youngest son was severely injured. My thoughts rambled back to when…

Bird Droppings March 15, 2017 As a teacher we should always be near the edge   I recall taking groups hiking in North Georgia and always there is that one person who has to be at the edge of a gorge or edge of the trail dropping two hundred feet down looking over and nearly…

Bird Droppings March 14, 2017 The sacredness of finding Foxfire in the Kalahari Desert   I have known about Foxfire for nearly fifty years since I bought my first copy of a Foxfire book in 1972 or so. Since that time coincidence as it may be I have taken courses in the Foxfire approach to…

Bird Droppings March 13, 2017 Going to school again for the first time So often as I start my writings each morning there has been an experience recently to build upon. It is utilizing these previous experiences that provide windows and doors into future experiences. I was driving through our town and a shop I…

Bird Droppings March 10, 2017 Using pronouns as a cover up   My mornings generally consist of a trip to Quick Trip to get unsweet tea and fill my thermal cup with ice. Today was no different and as I drove toward QT I by chance caught a blur on the road, some movement in…

Bird Droppings March 9, 2017 Why should it be neither wolf nor dog in education?   In light of watching current news and political turmoil I recalled a trip to the Atlanta Zoo. I was approached as I walked up the hill at the Zoo by an elderly man. I had never met this man…

Bird Droppings March 8, 2017 Teaching can make 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.…

Bird Droppings March 7, 2017 Potential is only that unless it is acted upon   “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly…