Thinking About Education

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ~Socrates

“Learning is the only thing for you.” ~T. H. White, The Once and Future King

  “It is one of our greatest experiences, as advanced educators, to know the motivational content of our subjects, and to deliberately inspire our students with the love of content that they would have been unlikely ever to have known without our teaching. It is the special opportunity for grammar teachers to show students why grammar is beautiful and fun, and it is the special privilege of the calculus teacher to show students.. Read More

A Definition of “Story”

Good definitions can be enlightening in themselves. I came across this one in a writing class I took. I think it was the one taught by Joyce Allen here at the Carrboro ArtsCenter: Story – a journey, actual or metaphorical, involving a person (or person equivalent) the reader engages with for whom something is at stake. The person finds problems and meets them in some way so that by the end something has.. Read More

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