December 2011
39 posts
Allegiance to a state impossible to tell.
http://ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/pinsky/impossible_to_tell.php
(see previous post)
THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO READ WITH DIGITAL WORLD LIT... →
How do I explain this to admin? Our seniors need to be reading like this (much less creating these) by the time they are Sophs in college. but can most college even offer this kind of work yet?
I used to be an English teacher, but then I took an arrow to the knee…
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood...
– Soren Kierkegaard
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much...
– Anatole France
Some love for one of my favorite filmmakers, Terry... →
MOONSTRUCK CONTINUES...
THE BEST QUOTE FROM THE MOVIE…
“Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn’t know this either, but love don’t make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our...
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case For... →
austinkleon:
Writing things down, with your actual hands, is just plain better at getting you to remember and execute good ideas.
But we already knew that, right?
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will...
– O Wilde
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/nov/13/... →
Is anyone actually listening to Newt? →
Yes. This man is.