Bird Droppings November 21, 2013 Should children be left behind? “I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to…

Bird Droppings November 20, 2013 Can we find enough data through observing to decide on our own? “I do not write from mythology when I reflect upon Native American spirituality in this book. In my own opinion, mythology leads to superstition; and superstition has proved fatally destruction to many millions down through time. It is…

Bird Droppings November 19, 2013 Somewhere inside perhaps within ourselves “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit I am very much a creature of routine of habit and when my daily path is altered I have occasion to be amiss. My…

Bird Droppings November 18, 2013 Determining what it is we need to learn “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know — and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is…

Bird Droppings November 17, 2013 Trying to find where community exists For the second time as I get near the end of my doctorial course work I am involved in a class on educational communities which featured all total in the two courses fifteen texts. All of the texts have an under lying theme of…

Bird Droppings November 15, 2013 Can we listen through our heart? It has been several years since found on my many excursions to Barnes and Nobles a small book that I would like to share some passages from. I found many of the thoughts and passages to be of significance and for me sharing words…

Bird Droppings November 14, 2013 Perhaps I had a vision walking in moonlight As I walked out in the morning, the two thirds full moon’s glow lit the area. While only just a small part of the moon it was still a beautiful picture presented. There was a sense of light about as I stood…

Bird Droppings November 13, 2013 Looking at a cloud I am still warming my hands as this was the coldest morning of the fall to date. I went out to start my wife’s car and off in the pines a great horned owl called. I stood listening for several minutes focusing on the sound and…

Bird Droppings November 12, 2013 Today is day one or so I am told I remember nearly seven years ago as we got closer to the last day in our old house it was actually appropriately to be the last day of the month. Sitting here in my class room thinking back early in the…

Bird Droppings November 11, 2011 Gratitude is action as well as words Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle, 1854 Most mornings I am driving to school…