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Understanding Education and Learning Part 1
Bird Droppings June 3, 2011 Understanding Education and Learning Part 1 Aldus Huxley published a book in 1932, Content and Pretexts, that did not provide the income he had intended but did provide me with a point to start this days writing. In his book Huxley stated that: “Experience is not what happens to a…
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Time do we need it?
Bird Droppings Jun 2, 2011 Time do we need it? I started yesterday with a crazy idea of comparing learning to barn building and as I continued my train of thought I recalled a couple of articles along the way in my readings. “Small communities, with their distinctive character where life is stable and intensely…
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Education without learning is like a barn without walls
Bird Droppings June 1, 2011 Education without learning is like a barn without walls. “A truly educational community that embodies both rigor and involvement will elude us until we establish a plumb line that measures teachers and students alike as great things can do.” Parker Palmer It has been many years since we as a…
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TIME
Bird Droppings May 26, 2011 Time Somewhere in my wanderings yesterday I forgot to save my droppings. Seldom in eleven years of writing nearly daily have a missed saving to various folders by month and year any of my daily wanderings. For some reason I had my days mixed up backwards or such forgot about…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 