Learning & Teaching

More Clay Burell in a blog post about America’s disdain for teachers: Somebody said “A person ages into the face he deserves.” The same is true of a civilization. If America has aged into a face of illiteracy, innumeracy, historical, geographic, and scientific ignorance, it’s no mystery why. According to Burell, teachers are respected in [...]

Clay Burell, Beyond School, on the teaching profession: “All of the forces in modern culture commanding we not eat of the Tree of Knowledge, and instead obey the dictates of money-grubbing, we teachers disobeyed. We chose the apple over the greenback, love over lucre, and Mammon be damned. And if we really love the forbidden [...]

And if you aren’t so goddamned fed up with this crap from the oil industry that you want to scream, then maybe you need to have some tar balls fall out of the sky on to your front lawn before you get it. —Alec Baldwin Shweddy Balls, anyone?

Love this guy! Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution He speaks of a “crisis of human resources” that parallels the climate crisis. Here’s just a tidbit: “Education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents. And human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go [...]