Lastly, the superstitious man becomes a fanatic, and then his zeal becomes capable of all crimes in the name of the Lord. Voltaire – ON SUPERSTITION – Toleration and Other Essays

The superstitious man is his own executioner; and he is the executioner of all who do not agree with him. Voltaire – ON SUPERSTITION – Toleration and Other Essays What I love about this line is its first clause. In what way does superstition make us our own executioners? The second clause is easy enough [...]

Second draft: On Two Ways of Reading: Slavery reads on its knees. Freedom reads on its feet. So a high school teacher’s job: to teach students to find those feet? I’m just looking for snappy first principles here. Ones within the 15-year-old attention span.

School writing: Assignments by teachers who don’t want to read them, to students who don’t want to write them; a perpetual and unnecessary misery upon which hinges the student’s future, and the teacher’s present, livelihood.

Give me a schooly unit, I’ll make an ‘A’ for a day. Teach me how to make a Personal Learning Network, I’ll learn for a lifetime. –from a comment I left on David Warlick’s riff off my podcast conversation with Chris Craft yesterday.  Exciting times.