The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Alfie Kohn

  • The genocide of learning

    Bird Droppings June 22-23, 2011 The genocide of learning It gets difficult to finish my daily journals entries lately running back and forth to North Georgia. As today as I write I am working on an idea that has been bothering me for some time. I used the harsh word of genocide in my title…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Do we fail ourselves?

    Bird Droppings March 15, 2011 Do we fail ourselves? I left the house just before the rain, sort of sounds like a song starting off. An old Neil Young song Last Trip to Tulsa starts something like that. Anyhow I drove on down the road went by QT since I forgot my water bottle at…

  • Passion: Can be acquired?

    Bird Droppings January 25, 2011 Passion: Can be acquired? “To speak so listeners long to hear more and to listen so others’ meaning is grasped are the ideals of the impeccably great.” Tirukkural 65:646 When I first read the passage from the Tirukkural I thought of the Einstein quote I used to use at the…

  • Teaching can be successful

    Bird Droppings September 7, 2010 Teaching can be successful “The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.” Ted Sizer I received…