Memorable Quotes - Henry David Thoreau
December 4, 2007If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Memorable Quotes - William Blake
March 15, 2007I must create a system or be enslav’d by another man’s.
– William Blake
Memorable Quotes - Heraclitus
February 26, 2007It is in changing that things find purpose.
– Heraclitus
Musings on Modern Pedagogies
February 12, 2007I’ve had occasion to be thinking a lot lately about schooling and the type of education I believe that my kids should receive. I consider myself fortunate to have received both public and private high school education, and I can see the advantages and disadvantaages of both. I still can’t help wondering whether the whole education system itself is in tune with the real needs of my kids? I have a nagging feeling (intuition?) that it isn’t. This line of questioning led me to some Montaignean wisdom on the subject:
I gladly come back to the absurdity of our education: its end has not been able to make us good and wise but learned. And it has succeeded. It has not taught us to seek virtue and embrace wisdom: it has impressed upon us their derivation and their etymology.
Come to think of it, this statement sums up my feelings about my own education. I’m working hard to correct the imbalance on that score.
Aside: the definition of pedagogy?: from paidagÅgos, slave who took children to and from school.
Memorable Quotes - Martin Luther King Jr.
December 4, 2006“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just the first step.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
