Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.
–Greta Thunberg
What She Said, January 17: Greta Thunberg
What She Said, January 16: Wilma Mankiller
Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.
— Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation
What She Said, September 8: Doris Lessing
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: “You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination….what you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be….Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself…those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being molded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” -Doris Lessing
What She Said, August 13: Tara Westover
Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. –Tara Westover
What She Said, August 12: Malala Yousafzai
Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. –Malala Yousafzai
What She Said, August 10: Maria Montessori
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. –Maria Montessori
A Teaching Philosophy: I ♥ School
When the last days of summer arrive, I get that back-to-school feeling. It’s the same feeling I had when I was a kid, and my mother took me and my sisters shopping […]
Why Positive Reinforcement Works
I used to joke that everything I learned about teaching, I learned from dog training. Then I’d scold my class, “Sit! Stay! Hush!” The truth is, especially since the rise of positive […]
Resistance is Patriotic: A Platform Worth Fighting For, Wearing Red, and the International Women’s Strike in the USA
This weekend I picked out a little American flag to plant in our front yard. It was a patriotic impulse-buy. But I won’t lie. I’ve been lusting after other countries: Canada […]
Renaissance Person
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers… —William Wordsworth I was listening to a […]
The Gloria Sirens 