I always tell people who tell me that I’m going to hell for being decidedly skeptical about myths from pre-scientific times that a) I’ve read the Bible in its entirety three times, and studied world religions and Church history enough to feel 99% certain the myths are simply myths (and that 1% of doubt is […]
[Before I launch into the statistics, I want to urge you to watch the YouTube video at the bottom of this post. It’s a beautiful testament to the scientific method. In it, a scientist proves Darwin right on a hypothesis that, when Darwin was alive, earned him ridicule. The proof took 150 years to come […]
[Update 2: Goodness! A 75-comment debate exploded in less than a day. Best sustained conversation among all commenters (not just responding to the post) that I’ve ever seen on this blog. A true “cocktail party” about an important subject: Assessing with a bias toward writing, versus assessing to reward non-written communication skills equally in grades.] […]
Extending my last post on why I think Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita should be required reading at some point in high school language arts classes:
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus kills his father, then marries and impregnates his mother: we teach this parricidal, incestuous, antique “classic” to 14-year-olds.
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the prince’s uncle murders his brother […]
Hot off the TED presses: A brain scientist shares her experience of what can only be called mysticism from, of all things, a stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain.
It’s nice to hear scientists describing these experiences without recourse to the religious Books of old. One doesn’t need to read a […]
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Clay Burell:
Chattanooga - Los Angeles - Eugene, OR - Wuerzburg, Germany - Shanghai, China - Seoul, Korea over 40-odd years. English, History, and ESOL teacher-geek. Apple Distinguished Educator. I hate schooliness. I love learning.
I started Beyond School on Blogger on 1 Jan. 2007. Out of love for WordPress, I divorced Blogger on 20 October 2007 to self-host here. Thanks for coming by.
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