The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Peter Drucker

  • Teaching can be successful

    Bird Droppings September 3, 2011 Teaching can be successful So as I do on many mornings when I can, I walked out to a quiet corner of my back yard nestled in a patch of weeds and brush and looked toward the east. In the morning with the sunrise the threads of life as I…

  • Annuals or Perennials

    Bird Droppings June 7, 2011 Annuals or Perennials “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Peter Drucker I have read so many times that education should be about teaching life long learners. Sadly as…

  • Teaching can be successful

    Bird Droppings September 7, 2010 Teaching can be successful “The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.” Ted Sizer I received…