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  • Tell all the truth but tell it slant

    Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man… Continue reading

    Tell all the truth but tell it slant

  • Perfection (And: Where To Find It)

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  • Quiet and meditation as pedagogy

    In 2007, James Dierke, then the principal of the Visitacion Valley Middle School in a troubled neighborhood in San Francisco, was determined to improve both the quality of education and student behavior in his school. He adopted a system called… Continue reading

    Quiet and meditation as pedagogy

  • Our Poverty Myth

    The first factor determining one’s wealth as an adult is an accident of birth. If you’re born to wealthy parents, you’ll go to better schools and get better health care. Your odds of success as an adult are higher. If,… Continue reading

  • The Donald as unifier

    Here’s what Donald Trump is not: He is not us. He is not all of us. He is not the best of us. He is not inevitable. Let us take Trump at his word. Let him be our Unifier. Source:… Continue reading

  • Expulsion of the White Working Class

    This exemplifies how the superstructure dominates every aspect of our lives. The neoliberal policies of the two plutocratic parties, Democrat and Republican, keep folks separated along racial lines so that the bottom 50% of citizens will not communicate with each other.… Continue reading

    Expulsion of the White Working Class

  • Bringing out the dead

    Being in academia, asked to do what academics do to show they are really academics, makes me feel dead inside. The world doesn’t need more proliferating monographs and essays. It needs thinkers who will spend time with young people one… Continue reading

    Bringing out the dead

  • May the Fourth Be with You

    Let-go of what weighs you down… “Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.” ~Yoda. And May the Fourth be with you! Continue reading

    May the Fourth Be with You

  • Research method: napping

    Over the years as I worked through the #trudgery of academic assignments, napping has become an important aspect of my process. I read and write on a subject for a few hours. Then I drink about 8 ounces of black… Continue reading

    Research method: napping

  • Mindful Self-Acceptance? Bad Idea According to Ancient Chinese Philosophers

    Asian philosophies have proven extremely influential in the United States, but are they being interpreted correctly? Frequently not, says Harvard China historian Michael Puett, who focuses on two main ideas in this video: one transported relatively recently to the United… Continue reading

    Mindful Self-Acceptance? Bad Idea According to Ancient Chinese Philosophers