by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
What are educators supposed to be doing? Liberating something or someone, I believe.Liberating people's minds, certainly. Yet the mind, the result of civilization, tradition, and acculturation, cannot free itself. Nor can the minds of men, dedicated to better...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
He's fat.He's brash.He kicks butt.He tells it like it is.Chris Christ is no Christ-figure, yet he has Christ-like qualities, unlike the current Vanity-in-Chief, whose self-importance has so impeded his pretended usefulness, the country is longing to be rid of...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Students in impoverished school districts usually settle for new teachers who look for the first chance to move to a better school, or they settle for long-term and day-to-day substitute teachers.When one teacher shows up to inspire them, they have a sense of hope....
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...
