January 2010
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Today’s shogakko has me in the mountains of Shizuoka, not near anywhere I have ever been before. The elementary school is small—each class numbers in the teens or less. The hills surrounding the school are full of “strawberry houses,” as one of the teachers tells me in his limited, yet perfectly understandable English. Far in the distance, past the one narrow road that...
“Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know,...”
– Carol, from Paris je t’aime (via pseudopoetry: followyourbliss) (via thisjustin)
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is...”
– J.K. Rowling
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
– Thomas H. Huxley (via theimpossiblecool) (via forgedaboudit)
Op-Ed Columnist - The Underlying Tragedy -... →
So sad, yet so true.
Study Gauges Teach for America Graduates’ Civic... →
Really interesting article; it highlights some of the concerns I’ve heard from people I know who are in the program. To a larger extent, I think it may very well be relevant to participation in other programs and groups geared toward producing “civic-minded individuals.” At the end of the day, though, I think it does boil down to deeply investigating the core mission of such...
December 2009
11 posts
