There is a girl I wish I could have spent a little more time with. Someone from my past. I remember a holiday I took with her, the two of us were swimming with a shoal of fish in the shallows of an island while light rain beat down on the surface. The water was
Month: October 2017
The Downside
Steve Jobs, known for his internationally acclaimed technologically based Apple products, stated “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And more important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” Mr. Jobs was regarded as an innovative entrepreneur whose own inspirational journey to the top is reflected in
“It is better to be without logic than to be without feelings.” – Charlotte Bronte
This quote is pinned to one of the display boards at my school. I came across it during one of our lunch breaks and was immediately struck by the truth of it. She had poured into words what I had been feeling for a long time since high school. And this is what I feel
Two Paths Diverge in the Halls of the Little Red School House – Which One Should We Take?
Do we take the path of broadening the mind or do we take the path of preparing students for working life? Consider what broadening the mind and preparing for working life really means. What does broadening the mind mean? It means to expand your way of thinking so that you are able to accept other
If Bill Has 17 Peaches, How Many Of My Classmates Are Still Starving?
For the third day in a row, our college algebra teacher drones on about the functions of a graphing calculator. He hesitates as he moves from step to step, as if any of us are paying careful attention to the dozens of ways to solve for the invaluable solution of ‘x’, using a machine that
The Education Role
Let’s begin with establishing a couple of definitions: Education – the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/education?s=t Broaden – to increase something such as your knowledge, experience, or range of activities http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/broaden My
Navigating Falsehoods and the Human Condition
Abraham Lincoln never said the following: “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Robert G. Ingersoll, a forgotten thinker of the very highest order, never said them either, but he outlined a much similar notion in an 1884 essay on the subject of Abraham
Changing World
Education has always been a big issue for the nation, even since before the establishment of the Constitution. The national government set up support for public education almost immediately after the war for independence. The Confederation Congress passed a set of bills called the Northwest Ordinances. It could be said that these ordinances set up
Broadening the mind, freeing the spirit
Modern western industrialized society said education should be aimed towards holding down a job and the pursuit of a career. I will not argue the acquisition of a skill for a liveable livelihood, but education limited to just that is parlous. There was a time when education was a broadening of the mind and a
Preparing students for working life – Are we missing something?
There is much written about preparing students for working life and the various approaches, considerations and delivery – or lack thereof – that educational institutes have in place. The delivery and quality of careers services across the world are continually under scrutiny and it seems there are few places that get it right. Numerous
BEING ORDINARY OR BEING EXTRAORDINARY
INTRODUCTION When given the option of being ordinary or being extraordinary, which would be your choice? Without a doubt, most of us will choose the latter, “being extraordinary”. This is no surprise because human nature is such that it craves power, excellence and perfection. On first thought, nobody would want to settle for less. We
Do childhood bookshelves hold the key to both our past and future selves?
Rereading feels like a self-indulgent act. Effortlessly sifting through familiar pages, like falling into the arms of your first love or an old friend you haven’t seen in a while. You may not remember every detail right off the top of your head but as soon as you sink into the pages memories come flooding
Before the Bull runs into the Girl
The heated confrontation in the New York’s Wall Street’s arena looks interesting but somewhat unfair; the Fearless Girl, who faces the gigantic Charging Bull, is not even the square root of his size. This looks insane, but all madness ever, had a fierce motive behind it. So definitely, here too, is an agenda. Feminism- that’s
Acquire power or be dominated in bondage
In the twenty first century, coupled with over seven billion people, nobody would want to live without power. The power we need as a human being is exhibited in different forms. I might need it to eat and another person may need it to buy a house. I remembered a moment in my past when
Find Your Self Within Stories
“She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.” Clearing out my cupboard of children’s classics several months ago (a perfect procrastination from the mountains of marking that became a permanent feature of every weekend last year, when working as a secondary school English teacher), I