Tag: Millenials
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Cherry Picking, False Nostalgia, and the invention of Boredom
Sometimes, I wonder at how much Boomers–the most privileged generation in the history of humankind–feel compelled to call today’s youth fragile, lazy, coddled, etc. To lament how things are not as awesome as they were “back then.” I am so over the notion that because we have social media we…
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Hashtag America – Official Write Bloody 2013 Submission
A wonderful young poet who definitely deserves your attention. He is in a contest at the moment. Take a listen. If you are as impressed with him as I am, then go over to YouTube and “like” the video as well as leave him a comment.
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Black Hole
I inhabit the void, the vacuous space between life and death. I often catch sight of tourists, standing on the rocky cliffs above, staring out over a shoreless sea of nothing,naked and shivering, hoping to find a god. There is no god here. But they don’t have to know that.…
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1/30/13 – Late Night, Brown Couch
I live in perpetual darkness. On occasion, I feel the warm glow of another. That gentle, unmistakable heat. I reach for it, and I am cast into a desert with a spotlight above. I am flooded with sensation, feeling, emotion. My cold, outer shell melts like a chocolate candy, and…
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1/26/13 – Early afternoon, green armchair
An old man sits on the dock, fishing. He is lost in the enchanting mystery that is the sea. When he was young, he would follow his father to the docks, watching him load crates on to the big ships from America. What would it be like to be on…
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1/25/13 – Morning, on the bus
Silence. He hangs in the air around me, refusing to leave side, clinging to me like grey does to an elephant’s hide. Hide. That’s something I try to do, but the funny thing about Silence is that try as I might, he is impossible to shake. Sure, if skulk away…
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1/24/13 – 7th period, Honors Calculus
I am trapped in an ocean of meaningless conversation, floating on a door of unfulfillment. It has a brass handle. I drift in and out of consciousness with the up and down of the swells. Rage at my vacuous surroundings pins me down like a red rose in the mouth…
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1/24/13 – 2nd period, French 3
Why do we learn? Why do we sacrifice? I remain caught between opposing sides of serving a higher purpose. To be a martyr for the oppressed, to dedicate and possibly sacrifice oneself in every sense is a virtuous and noble cause, yet it begs the question of why we perceive…
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1/24/13 – Before school, on the bus
Why is it the boundaries of what exists and what doesn’t are drawn by the senses? The surreal is not imaginary, it is a separate metaphysical dimension. The senses are only determined by an individual’s cognitive skills, so who among us holds the divine qualification to say with certainty what…
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More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive
Yestereve, I contemplated so much how today’s youth can survive the world wrought by their parents and grandparents, that I dreamed about it. I especially want to thank my friend Matthew for asking for further clarification. Below you will see a slight variation of my response to him on my…
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Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive
Wow. This is a really good piece that is totally worth a read. And then a reread. And then maybe a further read. If you are someone who entered adulthood in the last few years, you are a Generation Y or Millennial. You have done your part to grow away…
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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…
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The End of the University as We Know It – Nathan Harden – The American Interest Magazine
One of the biggest barriers to the mainstreaming of online education is the common assumption that students don’t learn as well with computer-based instruction as they do with in-person instruction. There’s nothing like the personal touch of being in a classroom with an actual professor, says the conventional wisdom, and…
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Can Colleges Ever Really Be Accountable?
I go on a bit about our system of higher education. Mostly I do this because I have been in and around it for over two decades so it is a beast that is quite familiar to me. But that familiarity–which, yes, has bred an abiding contempt within my spirit–has…
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R&Ex’s 500th Post: The Student Debt Crisis
Thanks to all of those who have been reading this blog and spurring me on to keep posting. The other day I passed 10,000 views. And today is another milestone: the 500th post. I wanted to be sure and pick something that I believe highlights the generational issues of Boomers…
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Letters From Millennial Voters – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast
These letters that Sullivan has collected are an education for older Americans. Folks should give a look & think about what Millenials are saying. Letters From Millennial Voters – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast.
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Who Needs College? The Swiss Opt for Vocational School | TIME.com
This is something we really need to be doing in the USA. I would still encourage folks to learn & be engaged in the arts, humanities, & sciences, but we have to admit that the overwhelming majority of people who are going into higher education for vocational reasons would be…
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The Rise of Democratic Schools and ‘Solutionaries’…
Twenty years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a 12-year-old girl from Canada, “silenced the world for six minutes” with her raw and powerful oration lambasting adults for dumping the problems they created onto the next generation. “At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us…
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