tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284837106090895124.post4554352506879558097..comments2024-02-23T00:36:49.934-08:00Comments on Throughlines: The Training of MindUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284837106090895124.post-1358083219677693752013-08-18T13:42:38.740-07:002013-08-18T13:42:38.740-07:00Sigh. It's true that money is the force that t...Sigh. It's true that money is the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Monetary interests drive our national educational policies and national testing apparatus and local decisions on facilities and textbooks acquisition and hiring and so on. But I'm still naive enough, after all these years, to believe that once all the decisions get made about how the classroom is going to be provided, what happens next comes down to the people in that classroom, and it's possible, at least some of the time, to break into the clear for a while. <br /><br />I like the poem, and the "yes and" orientation it implies.<br /><br />Signed up for that art course you recommended, but then was travelling and didn't keep up. Now it's almost over. Maybe once I'm over the wall...Bruce Schaublehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663735635816558661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284837106090895124.post-15893296318493720902013-08-18T07:56:19.023-07:002013-08-18T07:56:19.023-07:00How wonderful that someone approaching teacher ret...How wonderful that someone approaching teacher retirement is still reading Dewey! <br /><br />When I started teaching (38 years ago) I thought that Dewey, Piaget et al would be the gods of education. It took me a few years to realize that it was more likely Karl Marx. Economics rules. Most decisions - good and bad - are made for reasons of money.<br /><br />Fork in the forest road -<br />Today I walk one straight through.<br />Next time, the other way.Ken Ronkowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02900812689003111586noreply@blogger.com