tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post5382403416872607733..comments2024-03-21T05:30:03.220-04:00Comments on Science teacher: Hubris and humilitydoylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-36449974686568380062012-05-11T21:59:27.779-04:002012-05-11T21:59:27.779-04:00Dear Jeffrey,
I am constitutionally unable to be ...Dear Jeffrey,<br /><br />I am constitutionally unable to be emperor of anything, excepting, perhaps. ice cream. You's have to ask Mr. Eliot.<br /><br /><br />Dear Scott,<br /><br />Ain't she wonderful?<br /><br />In a word, love. It comes down to knowing what matters. So few of us even dare ask the question anymore.doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-43415184544845734072012-05-10T13:02:16.324-04:002012-05-10T13:02:16.324-04:00Rachel Carson has written:*
“A child’s world is ...Rachel Carson has written:* <br /><br />“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune<br />that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring,<br />is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy, who is<br />supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in<br />the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing<br />antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with<br />things that are artificial, the alienation from sources of our strength. <br /><br />If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he<br />needs the companionship of at east one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy,<br />excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Parents often have a sense of inadequacy when<br />confronted on the one hand with the eager, sensitive mind of a child and on the other with a world<br />of complex physical nature, inhabited by a life so various and unfamiliar that it seems hopeless to<br />reduce it to order and knowledge. In a mood of self-defeat, they exclaim, “How can I possibly<br />teach my child about nature—why, I don’t even know one bird from another!” <br /><br />I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so<br />important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom,<br />then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must<br />grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have<br />been aroused—a sense of the beautiful; the excitement of the new and the unknown; a feeling of<br />sympathy, pity, admiration, or love—then we wish for knowledge about the object of our<br />emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more important to pave the way for<br />the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.” <br /><br />(1965, pp. 42-45)Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028247514592133365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-85298042458179901572012-05-10T00:15:41.051-04:002012-05-10T00:15:41.051-04:00Oh I'd like Emperor Michael.Oh I'd like Emperor Michael.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07622289685678433962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-64124467468908286452012-05-10T00:00:10.741-04:002012-05-10T00:00:10.741-04:00As a RI teacher, I know what the state standards w...As a RI teacher, I know what the state standards where I am look like. I expect the NJ standards are similar. I try to picture the standards we would have if you were emperor...Jeffrey Michals-Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11875231268940338643noreply@blogger.com