Bird Droppings May 15, 2015 Finding our reflection on a pond or window I boxed up a couple of boxes of “junk” from my class room the other day. Each piece at one time or another had been a teachable moment. Each was an item and or items for that had been collected and or…

Bird Droppings May 14, 2015 Life is making a quilt It was nearly eight years ago my wife walked in and told me that my mother said this day was to be a happy time a joyous occasion as we celebrated my father’s life after he had passed. She said I think we are even…

Bird Droppings May 13, 2015 Why are we not seeking peace? I walked out of my house into a cloudy morning sky. Off in the pines two great horned owls were calling to each other. Not being fluent in Great Horned Owl I can only say it was two owls hooting away. Still I was…

Bird Droppings May 12, 2015 Should we be pondering the idea of faith? “Modern technology advanced in such tiny increments for so long that we never realized how much our world was being altered, or the ultimate direction of the process. But now the speed of change is accelerating logarithmically. It is apparent that developing…

Bird Droppings May 11, 2015 Can we even compare ethics and politics? I picked up a copy of the Atlanta Journal Constitution about a year ago this morning. The front page had various articles but one caught my attention. Having been a student in psychology at Mercer University in Macon and required to go on…

Bird Droppings May 8, 2015 Why do children do what they do? “Our task is to make our children into disciples of the good life, by our own actions toward them and toward other people. This is the only effective discipline in the long run. But it is more arduous, and takes longer, than simply…

Bird Droppings May 7, 2015 Empathy; do we all have it? It was nearly two years ago I was sitting at breakfast beside a waterfall on the side of the mountain outside Clayton Georgia. It was wet there being it is a temperate deciduous rainforest in North Georgia and cooler at night than what I…

Bird Droppings May 6, 2015 Pondering and researching education while listening to a waterfalls It has been two years since I was staying at the Sylvan Mills Bed and Breakfast in a room over a waterfalls. I went up to North Georgia to recharge perhaps another word might be to rekindle my passion for education…

Bird Droppings May 5, 2015 Should we be only trying to fill a liter bottle? The current educational trends are analogous to trying to pour five gallons of material into a liter bottle using a funnel. As you try obliviously a large portion of material spills out and is discarded or lost. I use a…

Bird Droppings May 4, 2015 Is not every day a new journey begun? “School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.” Ivan…