A long time ago (in blog years) I wrote a post entitled: You won’t find any snarky, grammar/spelling Nazis here, in which I attempt to encourage you to write without worrying too much about stumbling over all those silly and often confusing rules and conventions. Then, as sort of a disclaimer, I wrote another post …
Category Archive: Learning
Jan 26
Education: Jung on our young
“We have, consequently, the comparatively complex problem in educating our young of training them not simply to assume uncritically the patterns of the past, but to recognize and cultivate their own creative possibilities; not to remain on some proven level of earlier biology and sociology, but to represent a movement of the species forward.” The …
Dec 17
Paradigm Shift Ahead: Learning Just Got Heroic.
I started a Masters program this fall and have to tell you–it’s a blast. I’m learning so many cool things! Recently we were asked to revisit our “Philosophies of Education.” So I got to play around with this the other night. I’ve mentioned stuff like this in passing before. But I’ve never formulated (and articulated) …
Nov 24
Old National Geographic Magazines: Trash or Time Capsule?
One of the joys of caring for aging parents (or in-laws) is that often as the inevitable downsizing begins, you get their stuff. This might be cool if 99% of it weren’t junk. Ancient tools, stacks of picture frames, geological surveys from 1950–you get the picture. But then, every so often something interesting pops up. …
Oct 20
Volvo’s Overseas Delivery Program Means Travel To, From, and Within Europe is (almost) ABSOLUTELY FREE!
“A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes This summer, my family and I had the opportunity to take a trip of a lifetime. The 1st of July, we packed the whole gang, along with Lisa’s parents, into a Scandinavia Airlines 747 and traveled for three and a …
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