tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post8471852005024090386..comments2024-03-21T05:30:03.220-04:00Comments on Science teacher: Arne Duncan, meet the Declaration of Independencedoylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-45425949475904212052009-07-05T19:52:54.664-04:002009-07-05T19:52:54.664-04:00Dear Kate,
The poem is wonderful! There's a p...Dear Kate,<br /><br />The poem is wonderful! There's a point in late June, early July when you can start to smell a hint of death under the teeming life.<br /><br />As far as "fomenting revolution," I'd settle for fomenting thinking. If that leads to more satisfied lives, less waste, and (Heaven forbid) less ambition, then I've not wasted my time teaching.<br /><br />Some children still aspire to things other than glory and gold. They keep me honest in the classroom.<br /><br />And, yes, more dancing--we do not need a revolution for that.doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-609182922565583132009-07-05T13:13:56.298-04:002009-07-05T13:13:56.298-04:00Michael - I am happy to join you in fomenting rev...Michael - I am happy to join you in fomenting revolution, as I know that you will remember that in every revolution we need to dance!<br /><br />A poem came to me today that I had to share with you. From The Writer's Almanac <a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/07/05" rel="nofollow">A Warm Summer in San Francisco</a>Katehttp://tabor330.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-22984095196900245382009-07-04T16:53:51.446-04:002009-07-04T16:53:51.446-04:00Dear Doug,
It's like you read my mind--I was ...Dear Doug,<br /><br />It's like you read my mind--I was debating whether to throw in bits of the Declaration.<br /><br />Happy Fourth of July!doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-39788845095984663192009-07-04T14:28:45.906-04:002009-07-04T14:28:45.906-04:00"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, a..."He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance."<br /><br />Arne is a ventriloquist's puppet. He is ours to deal with. Happy Independence Day. <br /><br />"We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.<br /><br />Happy edu-insurgency.Doug Noonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13407946361739255563noreply@blogger.com