The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Albert Einstein

  • Pondering on mothers day about faith

    Bird Droppings May 8, 2011 Pondering on mothers day about faith For so many a Sunday morning brings dressing up and heading to a place of worship. Worship for most is a community event a gathering of like believers who sit and go through ritualistic undertakings in a prescribed manner and at the prescribed time…

  • Always try and see through new eyes

    Bird Droppings May 5, 2011 Always try and see through new eyes “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” Dolly Parton It has been nearly five years since we last moved and seems we might stay here a while. I recall seven or eight years…

  • Looking deeper than the surface

    Bird Droppings April 29, 2011 Looking deeper than the surface It has been a long week. I am working hard on pulling nearly eight years of graduate school notes together, writing and reading at home as I develop my ideas for my dissertation. I will be driving down to Statesboro more than likely several times…

  • Are we going in the right direction?

    Bird Droppings March 30, 2011 Are we going in the right direction? “I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. I believe that the school must represent present life-life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in…

  • A beginning from an end

    Bird Droppings March 28, 2011 A beginning from an end “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” Albert Einstein Over the past two days…

  • Building sandcastles drip by drip

    Bird Droppings January 3, 2011 Building Sand castles drip by drip Back when I was going to Graduate School nearly every day and before switching to Internet classes and webct it took some getting used to going to school and then going to school. I was teaching from 7:20 – 3:00 students who have had…

  • Trying to clear your head

    Bird Droppings September 21, 2010 Trying to clear your head “The hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” Carl G. Jung I have been a fan of Jung for some time perhaps as I like his view of having more than simply a black and white view of psychology…

  • Thinking about where I am going

    Bird Droppings September 11, 2010 Thinking about where I am going “Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path… this is what I must do; this is what I’ve got to have. This is who I am. It’s important to ask yourself, how am I useful to others? What do people…