The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: politics

  • Can we even compare ethics and politics?

    Bird Droppings May 21, 2025Can we even compare ethics and politics? I picked up a copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about eight years ago. The front page had various articles, but one caught my attention. Having been a student in psychology at Mercer University in Macon, I was required to go on a field trip…

  • Bird Droppings April 16, 2025Can we even compare ethics and politics? I picked up a copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this morning about five years ago. The front page had various articles, but one caught my attention. Having been a student in psychology at Mercer University in Macon, I was required to go on a…

  • Bird Droppings March 28, 2025 Making a difference each day “Dialogue is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire A Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century popularized the term “dialogue” in his writing. As I read about Freire…

  • Ethics and Politics: I think they are antonyms

    Bird Droppings March 25, 2025Ethics and Politics: I think they are antonyms Many things are happening in our world that are often the result of a politician’s actions, whether we voted for them or not. Industry is being remade, wars are being fought, jobs are appearing and disappearing, and health care reform is possibly off…

  • How capable do we need to be? Should the truth be more valid than a lie? An idea inspired by a student.

    Bird Droppings October 3, 2024 How capable do we need to be? Should the truth be more valid than a lie? An idea inspired by a student. I have listened to each of the debates and came away feeling how we could have gotten to this point. Most recently, one of the debaters was stopped…