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Is history what happened today or tomorrow?
Bird Droppings June 11, 2011 Is history what happened today or tomorrow? I am sitting on the porch of the Long House at the Foxfire property listening to the rain side of the mountains. Several miles away thunder is brewing and I can smell rain. There have been discussions of history obviously at this place…
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Thinking, sitting, pondering and recovering
Bird Droppings June 9, 2011 Thinking, sitting, pondering and recovering I drove to north Georgia on Sunday and Tuesday and have been babysitting Charlie my grand daughter in between. I enjoy the drive up into the mountains always going part of the way on back roads. As I was sitting around yesterday evening my oldest…
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John Dewey might appreciate Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bird Droppings June 8, 2011 John Dewey might appreciate Ralph Waldo Emerson It has been a few days since I wrote in the morning perhaps the summer laziness has come upon me although last night it I was sitting and wondering where the loud sound outside the bedroom window was coming from. I got home…
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Annuals or Perennials
Bird Droppings June 7, 2011 Annuals or Perennials “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Peter Drucker I have read so many times that education should be about teaching life long learners. Sadly as…
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Driving up a mountain
Bird Droppings June 5, 2011 Driving up a mountain I was looking forward to the trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia, the site of the Foxfire property and teachers class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching. My oldest son was taking the course as a piece of his master’s degree program at Piedmont…
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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…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 