The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Teaching

  • Can we really be human?

    Bird Dropping May 21, 2012 Can we really be human? “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” Mother Teresa Over the weekend in several discussions on how we as humans treat each other primarily oriented around the concept of race I mentioned once or twice how we are all the same…

  • Children learn what they live

    Bird Droppings May 19, 2012 Children Learn what they Live   It is such a beautiful morning and quiet outside, I had the opportunity to sit and meditate for nearly an hour under the stars today. I took our dog out and the air was still and nearly silent however the quiet and sounds that…

  • Passion is a word reserved for those who have it!

    Bird Droppings May 18, 2012 Passion is a word reserved for those who have it!               I walked out for the second day in a row to calls from whippoorwills and a doe and her twin nearly grown fawns grazing within almost touching distance. I got up rather early for my last day of…

  • Trying to see the world with a narrow lens

    Bird Droppings May 17, 2012 Trying to see the world with a narrow lens   My wife used to pick on my seventies glasses, big wide lenses and frames that they were. I recently went and got a new prescription and modern frames and lenses much smaller and narrower. I was sitting outside this morning…

  • Searching for, looking at, and finally placing the pieces to the puzzle

    Bird Droppings May 16, 2012 Searching for, looking at and finally placing the pieces to the puzzle “The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ”social worker” -judge.” Dr. Michael Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas             Last night…

  • Dreams do not stand alone

    Bird Droppings May 15, 2012 Dreams do not stand alone   “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard Bach   It has been so many years since I first experienced the whimsical book Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach’s…

  • Can we lend another ear?

    Bird Droppings May 14, 2012 Can we lend another ear?   “Hearing is one of the body’s five senses. But listening is an art.” Frank Tyger   After trying to find out who is Frank Tyger I have to resolve that I still do not know but I like the quote. Many years ago I…

  • Finding Foxfire in the Kalahari

    Bird Droppings May 13, 2012 Finding Foxfire in the Kalahari   “Not only the present, but the future depends on a constant reinterpretation of history and a re-examination of the state and nature of human consciousness. Both these processes are profoundly and mysteriously interdependent and doomed to failure without a continuous search after self-knowledge, since…

  • Looking for the passion in life

    Bird Droppings May 12, 2012 Looking for the passion in life “All games have an important and probably decisive influence on the destinies of the players under ordinary social conditions; but some offer more opportunities than others for life long careers and are more likely to involve innocent bystanders.” Dr. Eric Berne, The games people…

  • I write for teachers who choose to see through new eyes

    Bird Droppings May 11, 2012 I write for teachers who choose to see through new eyes   “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” Dolly Parton   It has been nearly seven years since we last moved and seems we might stay here a while.…