The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings April 23, 2016 Just Sitting and thinking I was reading old emails and even looking at some old correspondence through my almost never used Xanga account. It was somewhere way back in 2005 and my middle son had posted a note that he had read the lyrics to a song. Joni Mitchell is…

Bird Droppings April 22, 2016 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 phone calls,…

Bird Droppings April 21, 2016 Are we experiencing the genocide of learning? In the midst of my daily journals entries lately it gets hectic I am trying to get readmitted to one of two doctorate programs I have started, running back and forth to North Georgia to visit with friends, research, reading and discussing John…

Bird Droppings April 20, 2016 Should we sharpen the machete or bring a shovel? I have been reflecting over the concept of critical pedagogy and in that reflection I recall an incident nearly forty years ago that calls to mind my own interpretation and understanding of what we as teachers are all about. I purchased…

Bird Droppings April 19, 2016 My pedagogy is evolving as I learn, see and listen “We would do away with examinations. They measure the inconsequential type of learning. We would do away with grades and credits for the same reason. We would do away with degrees as a measure of competence partly for the same…

Bird Droppings April 18, 2016 Today should always be a first day “I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.” Lone Man (Isna-la-wica)Teton Sioux So often in life we think we are the one. We can do it all on our own with…

Bird Droppings April 15, 2016 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 when by…

Bird Droppings April 14, 2016 Reading a friend’s book a sixth time I was so tired when I laid down last night after driving around doing errands, working in the yard, working in my gardens, and attempting to get into my reading and writing. My youngest son in now a nurse at Athens Regional Hospital,…

Bird Droppings April 13, 2016 Wondering about the song lyrics of an old friend I first started listening to Neil Young’s music in 1967 or even earlier if you count Buffalo Springfield, a short lived band. Then there was of course 1968 with Crosby Stills and Nash at Woodstock and Deja vu, their first album…

Bird Droppings April 12, 2015 We need both the Rock and the Smoke “If people find no room in their lives to pray or to meditate, to reflect deeply on why they have been created and what they must do with their lives, and to listen with all of their being to the guidance of…