I wish I had more time. Don’t we all? After years of filling my To-Do list with a hose and emptying it with an eyedropper, … Read More ›
Tag: education
According to a Pearls Before Swine cartoon, history is memorized only because children are forced to do so. The cartoon also suggests that memorizing takes forever. … Read More ›
My senior year of high school, I wrote a letter to the administrator, who was also a pastor. Our teachers tell us to ‘think, don’t … Read More ›
All movie-watchers indulge in their own pet obsessions. Maybe you watch for plot twists; your sister watches for gorgeous soundtracks; your dad for the quotable … Read More ›
Reading a book at night has always been a dangerous prospect. If the bedtime reader wishes to relax his mind before sinking into sleep, he … Read More ›
I don’t go on Facebook much these days, but every so often I pop on to check for one thing or another and happen to … Read More ›
On the first day of school in kindergarten, I sat a table and looked a bunch of kids I didn’t know. I was a little … Read More ›
This past year I tutored a high school freshman in introductory science. We will call him Adam. Adam struggled mightily with most of the subjects … Read More ›