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Tag Archives: human nature
Restorative interlude
I am reading Marylinne Robinson’s essay on altruism while sitting on my front porch. The noises around me are the syncopated symphony of dove calls, the dull noise of a distant freeway that sounds, from this remove, like a water … Continue reading
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Aphorisms 2
11. If you have to ask for advice, you usually know what you should do and just don’t want to. 12. GAG every once in a while: “Go Against the Grain”. do something you aren’t really sure you can do … Continue reading
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ISAS 1.5
I woke up this morning thinking about teaching, no doubt the effect of all those talks and conversations with colleagues yesterday. What I was thinking, though, was that enjoyable (and worthwhile) as they mostly were, none of them addressed (save … Continue reading
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The “F” word
At St. John’s, it’s not what you think. Or rather, it is, but that particular word is in such common currency, both here and elsewhere, as to have lost most semantic value. The real “F” word here is “failure.” Because … Continue reading
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Aphorisms
Perhaps reading Nietzsche this fall caused me to fall into this sort of vein, but here are some aphorisms of my own, some original and some not. A few sacrifice precision for pithiness. Most were originally intended specifically for my … Continue reading
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Good teaching reflection
My younger daughter, who wants to be a teacher, sent an email to several of her former teachers (and me) asking how we as teachers try to treat our classes. Her questions are in italics below, my responses in plain … Continue reading
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Playing the game
Seth’s blog this morning sums up school quite well, too. And second-semester seniors too often move to the penultimate bullet…. Four stages of the game You don’t even realize there’s a game. (And any contest, market, project or engagement is … Continue reading
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