I Do Not Believe in Public Anything

In one Principal's office, I read a bizarre marquee:"I believe in public education."For my part, I do not believe in public ANYTHING.Public matters necessarily diffuse the individuals needs and varieties of human experience.The more diffusion, the...

Chris Christie: Do Not Run

Governor Christie, you a a great leader because you speak your mind, you do no pull any punches, you do not pull voters' legs, and you do not pull any fast ones.Do not jeopardize thus image of style and substance; do not run for President.You better serve the...

Mitt Romney: Great on Paper, Not in Spirit

Mitt Romney has the mind and body of a President.However, he is moved more by a sense of legacy and duty.We need a candidate and President moved by a spirit, a move of intuition for greater than a scripted pol who smacks of inevitability of established support.Mitt...

Sarah Palin: Do Not Run

Tea Party favorites are the flavor of the month in the Republican Party.Rick Perry is fired-up and fed up, yet his misfired in debate after debate.The candidate of the week per Ron Paul, Perry has waffled on issues and dismayed the high hopes of a disenchanted...

Why go to school — A reasonable reason?

Today, administrators charge that, "Students have to go to college. Students have to be trained for employment."Yet what they learn in school does not prepare them for working with different people, tolerate and discussing new ideas, facing problems beyond...

No Values in School — No Value to School

No values, no value system, no systemic anchor to channel why students come to school, and why they are learning what they are learning.Human capacity for learning demands that we can connect the dots of our experience to something greater than what is in front of us....