The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings November 25, 2013 Listening to a philosopher There was a beautiful sky this morning as I walked out and actually rather weird with fog and a slight chill which is surprising as the sky while filled with clouds and the fog still had a strange glow, almost a rainbow of color as the…

Bird Droppings November 21, 2014 Why are we deliberately trying to be wrong? I will admit that on Saturday night with a Powerball jackpot of only fifty million dollars I am pondering retiring if I win. I think I would be if I won retiring to devote time to education in a more positive way…

Bird Droppings November 21, 2013 Should children be left behind? “I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to…

Bird Droppings November 19, 2014 Can we find enough data through observing to decide on our own? As I was driving to baby sit two of my grandkids last night by chance a beep on my Iphone and I looked at a conversation dealing with special needs children. I have been involved in special needs…

Bird Droppings November 18, 2014 Perhaps within ourselves is the change “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit I wandered out into one of the coldest mornings of the year with our new huskie puppy Timber. I made it about half…

Bird Droppings November 17, 2014 Determining what it is we need to learn “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know — and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is…

Bird Droppings November 16, 2014 Can we listen through our heart? It has been several years since found on my many excursions to Barnes and Nobles a small book that I would like to share some passages from. I found many of the thoughts and passages to be of significance and for me sharing words…

Bird Droppings November 14, 2014 Perhaps I had a vision walking in moonlight As I walked out in the morning cold today, the a little more than a third of a full moon’s glow lit the area still giving me a vivid view of all around. While only just a small part of the moon…

Bird Droppings November 13, 2014 Looking at a cloud in the darkness I am still warming my hands as this was the coldest morning of the fall to date. I went out to check my wife’s car and off in the pines a great horned owl called. I stood listening for several minutes focusing on…

Bird Droppings November 12, 2014 Today is day one or so I am told Feeling old today now that I working on my sixty sixth year and a cold front coming in, my bones are aching. I remember nearly eight years ago as we got closer to the last day in our old house it…