The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Education

  • Working on a wedding

    Bird Droppings August 17, 2010 Working on a wedding Nearly two years ago I performed a wedding service for one of my sons close friends. As I was pulling together material for a short sermon and discussion I found several pieces from many years ago. As I thought this morning and walked out just before…

  • Trying to Succeed!

    Bird Droppings August 16, 2010 Trying to succeed! “Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.” Michael Eisner I wonder when a multibillionaire makes a statement like that how much meaning is in it. However as I read over the statement there…

  • Trying to find topsoil midst an erosion of soul

    Bird Droppings August 15, 2010 Trying to find topsoil midst an erosion of soul “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” Simone Weil The need for roots, I saw this idea earlier as I web surfed thinking and pondering this morning or perhaps as I was…

  • Experience is the best teacher

    Bird Droppings August 14, 2010 Experience is the greatest teacher “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy What a way to start with a line from a fiction…

  • Trying to find peace

    Bird Droppings August 8, 2010 Trying to find peace Earlier today I was sitting in my reading area and the concept of a just war popped up and how we will be fighting the “Just War” for ever. That concerns me as a father and as a human being. I was looking at how we…

  • Truth a myth or reality?

    Bird Droppings August 7, 2010 TRUTH a myth or reality “Your search among books, word upon word, may lead you to the depths of knowledge, but it is not the way to receive the reflection of your true self. When you have thrown off your ideas as to mind and body, the original truth will…

  • Translating and communicating

    Bird droppings August 6, 2010 Translating and communicating In about ten days I will have students in my class room again. I will be walking down hall ways and talking with students and teachers and I wonder will anything be different than when I left. I wonder if teachers have studied how to be more…

  • A bit of editorializing – Sorry

    Bird Droppings August 5, 2010 A bit of editorializing – Sorry I was reading in the National Educators news letter several key articles both of which dealt with assessment. I have for many years tried to reflect on my own progression in terms of assessment. During the past eight years while studying under and with…

  • Small is many times BIG

    Bird Droppings August 4, 2010 Small is many times BIG “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” Laura Ingalls Wilder It seems like yesterday that I was looking at some power point slides as we waited between committee meetings at Piedmont…

  • Rising to the possible or to get the banana

    Bird Droppings August 3, 2010 Rising to the possible or to get the banana “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints possibility never. And what wine…