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“I’ve got a song to sing, all over this land”
Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger. If you’re in New York City today, you can swing by Madison Square Garden and help celebrate his 90th birthday. Pete Seeger has been presence in my life since childhood with...
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Moving in a common rhythm
“Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. There’s no reason why education should be incompatible with craftsmanship.” Andy Rooney in his 2000 commencement address...
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Thomas Berry, 1914-2009: Losing, and finding, the universe
Thomas Berry, the writer and environmentalist who considered himself a “geologian” – “a historian of the Earth and its evolutionary processes” — died earlier this week at the age of 94. There are...
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A perfect school for learning
Last Thursday, Tom’s already unreliable helper — the Alberta advantage continues in the face of the recession — failed to show up for the first day of a big reshingling job. All of the shingles needed...
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Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
The above is the title of the 2009 CBC Massey Lectures, given last month by Canadian anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and now in book form too, as The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters...
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Carriers of arts, letters, and dumplings
I had a post yesterday on Rebecca Mead’s current New Yorker essay, “Learning by Degrees”, on the purpose of education, which I agree with her should not be to “compete in the global economy”, as our...
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Trading up
Another article from a few days ago (I’m on a roll…): Carol Morello of The Washington Post reports that “a small but apparently growing number of the college-educated who are taking up the trades”:...
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In search of lasting import
Over on the right, in one of the sidebars (“Our Curricula/For the Parents”) ever since I started this blog about four years ago has been a link to Jane Healy’s book, Endangered Minds: Why Children...
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The full impact
Pulitzer and Griffin prize-winning poet and essayist Charles Simic has a moving and thought-provoking blog post at the New York Review Blog this week, “A Country without Libraries”, from which: All...
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Successful rhetoric, and a Godine garden of fresh possibilities and...
Back in March, I wrote about a new book, Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth, a professor at the Boston University School of Law, which had recently received a strong review in...
View ArticleA rare home schooling post: AP Government & Citizenship
As parents, we make choices for our kids when they are very young with — we hope, we believe — their best interests at heart. I made a decision for Laura shortly after her birth that she recently came...
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