Archives for posts tagged ‘religion’

Of Confucius, Holy Clowns, and Holy Murderers: Some Advantages of China’s Religious Atheism

[This space hasĀ  been quiet because I've been fact-checking and otherwise researching my Unsucky Gilgamesh chaptersso far (which I hope to publish as a book when finished) and, since school started two weeks ago, writing for my students. The below is one such piece for my History of China students. There's no reason other students [...]

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Unsucky English Lecture 7: Gilgamesh: A Goddess Prays

[The Unsucky English Gilgamesh series so far: 1: Dangerous Questions ~ 2: The Day I Thought Gilgamesh Would Cost Me My Job ~ 3: Adam and Eve, Backwards ~ 4. The Seven Deadly Sins, Backwards ~ 5. Good, Evil, Nature, and the Hero, Backwards ~ 6. Gilgamesh and the Dawn of Man ~ 7. This [...]

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On Leaving Teaching to Become a Teacher

More and more I wonder: is school a good place for teachers who want to make a difference in the lives of their students, and to the future of the world? Is there a way to leave the daily farce of gradebooks, attendance sheets, tests, corporate and nationalist curriculum, homework assignments, grade-licking college careerist “students” [...]

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Truly Critical: Thinking about Science, Religion, and Goodness

Did you ever notice that we have no holidays in which we revere history’s true – in the sense of “backed up with evidence” – miracle-workers, those hard-working saviors we call “scientists”? Think about it: scientists, through the “miracle” of human reason, have eradicated diseases for literally billions of people through medicine, created light and [...]

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Education Podcasts Meme: Warlick, Fryer-McLeod, a Young Writer, and an Impassioned Secular Humanist

Scott McLeod from Dangerously Irrelevant tagged me with this interesting meme, so here are the rules, followed by the last five educational podcasts I listened to and/or watched: Meme guidelines Choose five of your favorite education podcasts. Any kind of education podcast is okay – students, teachers, administrators, professors, etc. – feel free to pick [...]

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Teaching Grammar on the Titanic: On Fear and Irrelevance in Education

“See, Hear, Speak No Evil” by AndyRamdin on Flickr [Update: This post is extends a critique of my own teaching, and typical schooling in general, that I wrote last week in "I'm Nobody. Goodbye to All of That." Makes sense to start there, if you haven't read it already.] I have a headache and a [...]

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Daily Diigo: "Consensus Trance" and Sam Harris Debate

Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: Wake up! Interesting challenge to conventional notions of “conscious thought” as, instead, “consensus trance.” From the intro, a clip relevant to the Global Cooling campaign: The relationship between the use of language and the induction of trance states might be one of the keys to understanding life in the last [...]

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Daily Diigo Snips and Comments: Politics Websites for the Classroom, Pre-Church Original Christian Texts On-Line

Unknown News | Lies from the Bush-Cheney administration Partisan? Yes. But also supported by documentary evidence. Could be a resource for Animal Farm, etc. Squealer doesn’t only symbolize Stalinist distorters of the truth, after all.–Clay Political News, Blogs, Humor featuring Republicans, Democrats, Independents and More For social studies and contemporary issues teachers looking for a [...]

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