by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
I am not called to be different.I am called to invest and impress who I am on a world that can take me or leave me.I am not called to tell students that they have nothing until they listen to me and learn from my limited experience.I am called to reveal to them the...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Most teachers ought to take stock of their lives, and what drove them into teaching.Was it because they loved to learn? Where did they learn to love learning? Chances are, it was not at school. I learned to speak French listening to Nineteenth Century Opera while...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Oliver Cromwell, the Puritan Lord Protector of England after the execution of King Charles the First, was the first totalitarian dictator in modern history.Perhaps his face and frame were not posted for all Englishmen to cower under, like some Orwellian nightmare, but...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
How many more interviews was I going to put myself through before I realized how inane, insane, and in vain the whole enterprise of public education would be?I went to a make-shift charter school in Inglewood (two, actually).Two other teachers and I had come together...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Adolescents struggle with an ever-expanding mind, which can easily lead them astray to the extent that they believe everything that they think.Hence, the important of education lies in guiding students to rely on and seek on verities more profound, more reliable than...
