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Filtering into bottles
Morning Bird Droppings July 8, 2011 Filtering into bottles “The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves…
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Curriculum is it sacred?
Bird Droppings July 7, 2011 Curriculum is it as sacred? So often even a miniscule one triggers with me a memory. We have a standing joke at our house about the rabbits that live around our yard. My wife continually mentions the book, Watership Downs, when addressing the bold creatures. Yesterday I was heading to…
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Ethics and politics
Bird Droppings June 30, 2011 Ethics and Politics I picked up a copy of the Atlanta Journal Constitution this morning. The front page had various articles but one caught my attention. Having been a student in psychology at Mercer University in Macon and required to go on a field trip to Central State Hospital at…
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The Journey
Bird Droppings June 27, 2011 A new journey “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.” Ivan Illich, 1971 I started with…
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Sitting, pondering and grandbaby sitting
Bird Droppings June 25, 2011 Sitting, pondering and grandbaby sitting I spent the better part of last week up on the side of Black Rock Mountain assisting in my own way the facilitating of a Foxfire Approach to teaching class for teachers and teachers to be. I am being somewhat sarcastic as I am doing…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 