Perhaps Rich is wrong in the poem below when she asserts “Not of course here.” THE SCHOOL AMONG THE RUINS Beirut the possibility of a prolonged erection (called priapism)selectively specific substances or to determine…
Date Archives March 2012
The Unexceptional, Unsurprising Success of America’s Bully Class
Here is a paragraph from Salon.com’s Andrew O’Hehir on the MPAA’s choice to rate the documentary about school bullying “R” and thus limit and restrict access to the kids who already live worse lives than…
Learning Bathroom Discipline: Let Freedom Aggregate
One of the abiding memories of school for many of us is the fact that you have to ask permission to use the bathroom and that that request can be denied you.* We are taught…
And half again, Zeno?*
A post by a new contributor, Bobby V., in response to yesterday’s post, Well, What Would Jesus Do?. I remember long ago sitting in an educational administration class in graduate school and blurting out, “Aristotle…
Well, What Would Jesus Do?
As a reader and writer, talker and walker I “do” mostly with my mind with a little work for those reliably real metas, carpal and tarsal. Those actions largely comprise the me that comes to…
Upon Examination: The Many and Few Against Liberty
Widespread ignorance bordering on idiocy is our new national goal. It’s no use pretending otherwise and telling us, as Thomas Friedman did in the Times a few days ago, that educated people are the nation’s…
Henry, A Portrait of Disinterest
But far more dangerous are these, who began when you were children, and took possession of your minds with their falsehoods, telling of one Socrates, a wise man, who speculated about the heaven above, and…
Walking and Talking: Wilco’s One Sunday Morning
Yesterday, Wednesday morning, I walked the dogs, as usual, uphill on 1st street (east) around 8 a.m. It seemed a perfect morning. A chill air balanced by a warming sun; a blue sky with long…
Send Lee Hamilton To Jail!
Or, Let the People’s Representative of the Cage Represent Them From the Cage. Here is a fact: Lee Hamilton of Bloomington, Indiana, former member of Congress for 34 years, former head of the Woodrow Wilson…
Common Core State Standards: A Stuccoed Stratum of Obscurity
What follows are two pieces by Eric Sargent, an educator in the St. Louis area, and good friend to the Errant. Eric has written the below in response to the state of education but also…