The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Education

  • The sacredness of finding Foxfire in the Kalahari Desert

    Bird Droppings March 24, 2014 The sacredness of finding Foxfire in the Kalahari Desert I have known about Foxfire for nearly forty five years since I bought my first copy of a Foxfire book in 1972 or so. Since that time coincidence as it may be I have taken courses in the Foxfire approach to…

  • The beginning or end in a circle is where?

    Bird Droppings March 21, 2014 The beginning or end in a circle is where? “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…

  • Can we teach a love of learning?

    Bird Droppings March 20, 2014 Can we teach a love of learning? I bumped into this young lady at the grocery store a few days ago and it had been some time since our last run in. She was one of my secret seniors nearly six years ago. It has been almost some time since…

  • Teachers should we question our questions?

    Bird Droppings March 18, 2014 Teachers should we question our questions? Yesterday as I was sitting in my class room for the first time in many days after finding in my files an article from a few years back about the innuendos about who and why Georgia students in middles schools across the state did…

  • It is in pondering the questions that understanding comes through

    Bird Droppings March 18, 2014 It is in pondering the questions that understanding comes through It has been interesting this spring, weather wise. I have been battling allergies and sinus issues daily between cold and hot and rain and then not enough rain and the pollen. When I headed to school today I had been…

  • Have we sold our souls for a few trinkets?

    Bird Droppings March 17, 2014 Have we sold our souls for a few trinkets? Morning is a special time for me always a new beginning. That might be far too easy of a way to say what I am trying to say. Today I went out a bit early from the house to take out…

  • Actions speak so much louder than words

    Bird Droppings March 16, 2014 Actions speak so much louder than words I have been away from my computer for several days after being sent home from school by the school nurse. My wife came and picked me up. After three weeks of blood pressure issues heart tests of all sorts and exams poked and…

  • Teaching and life are simply feeding wolves

    Bird Droppings March 12, 2014 Teaching and life are simply feeding wolves I have heard and seen this in many forms. “’One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a debate that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It is…

  • A good teacher teaches so the journey continues not ends

    Bird Droppings March 11, 2014 A good teacher teaches so the journey continues not ends “I have never found the companion that was as companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.” Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854 There…

  • Why is it when putting a puzzle together a piece is always left behind?

    Bird Droppings March 10, 2014 Why is it when putting a puzzle together a piece is always left behind? “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!” Gail Sheehy, American journalist,…