education
March 30, 2009
- Please Join Us at the Symposium "Art has to do with the sustaining and invigorating of the Personality. To be strong is to be happy. Art by expressing our feelings makes us strong and therefore happy." --John Butler Yeats in letter to Edward Dowden, 31 Dec, 1869 Among the world's creative thinkers and cultural workers, some achieve notable "success" that allows ...
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March 25, 2009
- What is wrong with the National Review Online this week? In one article, Mark Steyn criticizes Americans for foolishly following President Barack Obama, since we hardly know him. Mr. Steyn questions President Obama’s compassion, while he himself employs a derogatory choice of words in an attempt to be ironic. By the way, the article Mr. Steyn wrote was about the supposed hypocrisy of the ...
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March 23, 2009
- When I was active in athletics injuries were common… the coach called and school officials contacted the parents and a trip to the emergency room ensued. If the injury was serious, overnight stays or longer resulted. When my neighbor’s wife called 911 because her husband was sweating and clammy and he described a feeling like a weight on his chest, short time later, the ambulance ...
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March 22, 2009
- Well, I’m not really a Professional writer, yet! I have a story, I long to tell! As I sat in the dentist chair having my annual cleaning, the new hygienist over heard from others in the office that I was writing a book. And she asked me, “What is the book about?” Before I began sharing what I am writing on, I said, “Well, I’m not really a professional ...
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March 19, 2009
- I’m glad no one took my blood pressure as I watched “The Class,” for it would have been soaring. The movie – which takes place almost completely inside a high school on the edge of Paris – is great (as nearly all reviewers agree). So it wasn’t the quality of the film that nearly gave me a stroke.I’d done two site visits that day, watching WritersCorps teaching artists share poetry ...
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March 14, 2009
- I get furious when I hear the talk about "bad teachers" being the major problem with American education. The major problem is bad students: belligerent, lazy, overly entitled, lacking discipline, incompetemt, self-satisfied, and sometimes downright dangerous.
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March 10, 2009
- Last weekend in Berkeley I heard that that jobs of physical education instructors at UC Berkeley are under attack. The Daily Californian, the student newspaper, said, "next fall, the program is set to lose half of its courses and reduce most of its faculty to half-time, prompting backlash from instructors and students." Students started a letter writing campaign to protest the cuts, are ...
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March 3, 2009
- Michael Steele the head of the Republican National Committee declared that he and not Rush Limbaugh is the de facto head of the Republican Party. Then three days later, he apologized to Mr. Limbaugh for calling him an entertainer, who at times has been ugly and divisive. This is akin to Howard Dean apologizing to Keith Olberman. This would be funny if it were performed on stage, but in real ...
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March 2, 2009
- Today again I'm taking this post right from the “Southern Poverty Law Center” web site (www.splcenter.org/) This article is the idea of Tom Tancredo. Of course, anything Mr. Tancredo says needs to be taken “with a grain of salt” I don't want to waste much space writing about him, but you can find information regarding him online.He’s another Republican who should have the ...
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February 24, 2009
- The information below was taken directly from the Southern Poverty Law Center web site. (www.splcenter.org/) It appears to be some little known facts regarding the exploitation of “guest workers”. Links are provided for further reading. Again…it was a reminder of how grateful we are that there is a new administration leading our nation. I must say that a recent skit on “Saturday ...
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