Tag: teaching
member name: Bill Allin
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July 22, 2006 06:09 PM EDT --
I only wanted to put her out of my misery.
The purpose of this article is not to convey my innermost feelings as I struggled to avoid the temptation to snuff out someone's life. It's to show how . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:36 PM EDT --
"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only . . .
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September 14, 2006 07:55 PM EDT --
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
- Rwandan Proverb
There are no acceptable excuses. No matter what we may say to convince ourselves.
We are not . . .
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November 04, 2006 06:00 PM EST --
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
- Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)
Margaret Mead was an . . .
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February 17, 2008 05:52 PM EST --
If you want to know how powerful the pharmaceutical industry is, such that it gets the nickname Big Pharma, ask yourself why good health practices are not taught in schools and supported by curriculum . . .
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October 05, 2006 07:53 PM EDT --
"Education will never be as expensive as ignorance."
- Anonymous
I must veer away from my usual practice and express this clearly as my personal opinion.
Most, if not all, of the ills . . .
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February 03, 2007 04:32 PM EST --
"Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is."
- George Lucas, movie producer and animation innovator
Doesn't that make sense? Lucas, . . .
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July 27, 2006 06:44 PM EDT --
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it;
it's only good for wallowing in."
- Katherine Mansfield . . .
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September 19, 2006 08:02 PM EDT --
A moment that makes life thrilling:
watching a gathering of crows.
Then thoughts of war dead come chilling.
As every soldier rightly knows,
there's no god who favors killing.
- Anthony S. Maulucci, . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:39 PM EST --
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (1899-1989)
This goes against almost every lesson that is taught . . .
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February 25, 2007 05:04 PM EST --
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
- Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
Most of us who are Baby Boomers or older grew up in a time when laws were . . .
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June 09, 2008 07:11 PM EDT --
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
- Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (1804-81) . . .
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July 14, 2009 10:03 AM EDT --
ADHD: You or Someone You Love Could Have It and Not Know It
My sister had Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) all her life and took it to her grave. I might have had it, but a strange . . .
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May 29, 2008 08:41 PM EDT --
We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all
activity, the intolerable labor of thought.
- Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)
Hand's statement seems like a backhanded . . .
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June 14, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
I came across a wealth of quotable material from American writer Robert
Fulghum. For me to add to these would be guilding the lilly, so I offer
them unenhanced.
Robert Fulghum ((born 4 June 1937) . . .
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July 25, 2009 08:14 PM EDT --
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. - Simone Weil , French philosopher, mystic, activist (1909-1943)
I have never met a person who, as a child, wanted to grow up to be a criminal, a drug . . .
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August 13, 2009 08:10 PM EDT --
When Should Children Be Taught Certain Facts and Skills?
In response to an article I wrote recently about teaching information, facts and skills to children much earlier than most adults think . . .
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September 22, 2009 07:40 PM EDT --
How Public Schools Fail Us Tragically
"The social, emotional and spiritual are part of a child's connection with the world." - Mary Paradis, director of development at the Vancouver Waldorf . . .
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March 16, 2009 05:48 PM EDT --
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Lazarus Long, fictional character in Robert A Heinlein novels
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May 28, 2006 01:48 PM EDT --
As important as objectivity is in discussions about principles of life, no one can be objective about materialism. Or progress, if you are looking at it from the other side of the fence.
You see, materialism . . .
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