The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: John Dewey

  • 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…

  • Listening to John Lennon and reading John Dewey

    Bird Droppings June 14, 2011 Listening to John Lennon and reading John Dewey I ran my errands today including a trip to Barnes and Nobles. I got up and started my day driving and doing errands from yesterday and in the process a lot of thinking and pondering as I say. “As soon as you’re…

  • Keeping the energy flowing

    Bird Droppings June 12, 2011 Keeping the energy flowing I attend at least partially two Foxfire courses a year for teachers in Mountain City Georgia. This course is actually a graduate class of Piedmont College’s Education Department. Last night as my son and I made our way back, this was his first experience with Foxfire…

  • Sitting at my kitchen table pondering

    Bird Droppings June 10, 2011 Sitting at my kitchen table pondering I am very much a creature of habit. I like my routines and seem to follow very similar pathways daily. I can understand when walking through the woods and seeing a rabbit run or deer trail I would myself be doing the same thing…

  • Driving up a mountain

    Bird Droppings June 5, 2011 Driving up a mountain I was looking forward to the trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia, the site of the Foxfire property and teachers class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching. My oldest son was taking the course as a piece of his master’s degree program at Piedmont…

  • Understanding Education and Learning Part 1

    Bird Droppings June 3, 2011 Understanding Education and Learning Part 1 Aldus Huxley published a book in 1932, Content and Pretexts, that did not provide the income he had intended but did provide me with a point to start this days writing. In his book Huxley stated that: “Experience is not what happens to a…

  • 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…

  • All along the journey

    Bird Droppings May 3, 2011 All along the journey It is teacher appreciation week and in my box this morning several letters from students current and past thanking me for being who I am and for how I teach. In my years of teaching directly and indirectly I have always felt there is a way…

  • Going to school

    Bird Droppings April 28, 2011 Going to school So often as I start my writings each morning there has been an experience recently to build upon. It is utilizing these previous experiences that provide windows and doors into future experiences. I was driving through our town and a shop I had seen numerous times caught…

  • Reflection is so much more than a mirror

    Bird Droppings April 18, 2011 Reflection is so much more than a mirror I was sitting out in my back yard as I do every morning listening and thinking wondering about the coming day and week so much to ponder as I listened to the haunting call of a whippoorwill. A friend had gone for…