Bird Droppings October 15, 2015 Teaching today is tying a knot with only one end It was a Saturday morning a few weeks back and no one else up but me and I was about to go out and wander in the darkness for a bit. I have over the years enjoyed greeting the morning.…

Bird Droppings October 14, 2015 Seeing puzzle pieces by being patient For nearly a week I have been dealing with a viral infection and basically sleeping or resting much of the day. Walking upstairs has even been a burden on some days. I have been poked and prodded to a point of bruises on both…

Bird Droppings October 11, 2015 Why are we deliberately trying to be wrong? I will admit that on Saturday night with a Powerball jackpot of only about one hundred fifty million dollars I was pondering retiring if I won. I think I would be if I won retiring to devote time to education in a…

Bird Droppings October 7, 2015 Can we decide on our own? “I do not write from mythology when I reflect upon Native American spirituality in this book. In my own opinion, mythology leads to superstition; and superstition has proved fatally destruction to many millions down through time. It is ironic, then that Dominant Society accuses…

Bird Droppings October 6, 2015 Trying to find where community exists It was several months back in my doctorial course work I was in a class on educational communities which featured all total in the two courses fifteen texts. All of the texts have an under lying theme of caring and relationships as a key…

Bird Droppings October 6, 2015 Is the seat of the soul in the heart or mind? I believe I was prepared from childhood to discuss this topic. It has been many years since my first introduction to Native Peoples. I was three or four years old when I first remember my father’s stories of Little…

Bird Droppings October 2, 2015 Should children be left behind? “I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to…

Bird Droppings October 1, 2015 Who should be determining what it is we should teach “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know — and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.…

Bird Droppings September 30, 2015 Do we teach or are we taught “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein So many times when discussing students who are having difficult times an individual teacher’s perspective is all that matters. Recently I was about to thump another teacher in the head…

Bird Droppings September 29, 2015 What can be more sacred than life itself? Perhaps having been born on All Saints Day in St. Joseph’s Hospital gives me a better insight into the sacred than most normal folk. Of course then I have to consider that soon after I was born the Church dropped All Saints…