If we can bear witness to our students that we love the world, that we love the reality beneath our subjects, that we love them and that ultimately the love of God surrounds all of that, education can be a powerful 'something to start from.'
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Politics, Publishing, and Snowy Woods
Unless you were paying close attention, you may have missed a momentous occasion in politics and publishing earlier this year.
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The Iliad: A Poem of Force and Pity
This is, as far as I can tell, what we get from the first great war epic: the demystification of the glories of war and the tragic delusion of Force.
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Wherefore Homework?
Clearly, the recent focus of educators has been on the question: whither homework? And the answer is: seemingly to the wayside. But no one appears to be asking the deeper question: “Wherefore homework? Why would we assign it?”
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Epitaphs for the Journey (Book Recommendation)
For me, when I’m really in a poem, it’s the same as being in the middle of a prayer. It really is. That doesn’t necessarily mean that all the poems are going to be religious poems, except maybe in some very, very deep sense.
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“I’ll tell you about despair, mine.” A Tribute to Mary Oliver
I was sitting at home, coffee in hand, when one of those breaking news articles popped up at the top of my iPhone screen. “Mary Oliver, poet, dies at the age of 83.” My heart sank. I let out a sigh and tears welled up in my eyes.
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Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved (Book Recommendation)
"How many colors are needed to color any map (real or imaginary) such that any county is always colored differently than any neighbor with whom it shares a border?" The answer is simple, the mathematics complex.