As there is a movie staring Ralph Fiennes, or Voldemort to you youngsters, (who also directs) coming out based on Coriolanus I thought I’d share what is perhaps the greatest English essayist, William Hazlitt, on…
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The Stone of Life Need Roll Nowhere
I am a relaxed person. Until I read the newspaper, or see links from Facebook posts, telling me what is being done around me. You see, I like not doing anything. That doesn’t mean I…
Radiating from Our Senses, Pedagogically Yours
The poet May Swenson, in her preface to a selection of Tomas Transtromer poems she had translated into English, offers what might be the perfect vision for public education: Signals and responses radiating from our…
Reading Is (and Is Not) Power
Historically, reading is power. Rather, reading was an activity limited to those in power. The Catholic Church refused to allow the Bible to be translated from the Latin (a Power language of the church) to…