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  • Textimony 20130103

    Textimony 20130103

    Always the whispers of sages slip into oblivion. Loving struggle, ever adventuring to say the as yet unsaid, finds refreshment by raising up the forgotten.

  • Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: Thus the six syllables, om mani padme hum, mean that in dependence on the practice of a path which is an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform your impure body, speech, and mind into the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of…

  • Thanks to all who visited… 2012 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 10,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have…

  • Originally posted on it's about learning: Do we structure school in such a way that we truly promote and achieve that intricate balance between: 1) wanting to know and to understand and 2) keeping perspective that we have to be wrong quite a bit in order to gain deep knowledge…

  • Textimony 20121223

    In this loving struggle, death though certain has no sting; chance, no power; guilt, no blame; pain, no duration. Let-go violent force & obtain fortitude.

  • Textimony 20121222

    Loving struggle lets-go the long labor of being recognized by others for what you can do & embraces the Great Work of being-open to another as who you can be.

  • Social Class & Dividends for the Educational Industrial Complex

    Thanks to my ever vigilant colleague Carl Beck Sachs for pointing the article below out to me. I had seen it in my “topic alert:pedagogy” from the NYTimes, but did not know if I wanted to read it. I’m glad that I did although the information only confirms what I have…

  • MOOCs as capital-biased technological change

    Last week my Twitter feed briefly turned into a kind of massively open online course about MOOCs, in response to this thoughtful critique by Aaron Bady of an earlier post by Clay Shirky advancing an optimistic view of the role that free, open courses can play in reforming higher education. Bady…

  • There is no fiscal crisis. And macroeconomics is not a morality play.

    Nice overview of how things stand vis. the “fiscal cliff.” The Puritanism that surrounds how most people talk about debt–esp. government debt–really irritates and shows the lasting influence of Christian dogmatism on our sociocultural situation. Sometimes I cannot tell if a person who rants about the US federal deficit is…

  • Originally posted on sittinginthewoods: I just really like these pictures, and if I were a more astute naturalist, I’d be able to tell you what plant this is – but I’m not, and I can’t..though maybe Black Eyed Susan, or some version of Sunflower.  That’s the best I can do.…

  • Meditatio

    Meditatio

    You can listen to a piece that I put together called Meditatio by clicking here.

  • Deep Springs College: the school for cowboys gets ready for cowgirls | World news | The Guardian

    I know a really wonderful young man who just finished up his first few months at Deep Springs. I hope that we will soon get to talk about his experiences. The same year that Lenin’s Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace, another shortish, balding radical launched a social experiment of his own…

  • On 3 moments of freedom « Andrew Taggart

    Let’s examine a few different conceptions of freedom in hopes of arriving, in the end, at where we began. In his famous essay, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,” the contemporary philosopher Harry Frankfurt states, “According to one familiar philosophical tradition, being free is fundamentally a matter…