HOW to COMMENCE: “Fail Big; Be Grateful, Seek Wisdom, Get On Your Knees…”
Denzel Washington’s remarkable commencement speech points these graduates forward and away from, hopefully, the dead-end route of Marxist black liberation theology. Denzel speaks of God-given human desire, of aspirations beyond one’s self, of failing big, of seeking wisdom from above out of a heart of gratefulness and a daily dependence on God. All of these characteristics,…
College Trigger Warnings-Nothing New Under the Hard Sun
So one day, as Plato conveyed to me over a glass of ruby-red Greek wine, he goes back into the claustrophobic cave where he once had the courage to flee. He excitedly tells his former neighbors-the self-shackled cave dwellers-that there is brilliant light outside. Everything can be seen clearly. Truth and beauty await them outside the…
Imagine Education Normal
A recent comment dialogue I was involved with on another blog made me realize that many people act and react out of an imagination that is cable TV connected. Their words lacked perspective, moral imagination and a coherent basis for reality. Their words, wildly absurdist, were meant to make a serious point. Sadly this has become normative for online point-counterpoint.…
Income Inequality Anonymous
“Hello, my name is Jennifer. I am addicted to income inequality.” Group: “Hello Jennifer.” Group Leader: “We’ve asked Jennifer here tonight to please tell us her story, how she deals with income inequality addiction.” “Thank you for the invite Charis and Irene!” “Well, my income inequality addiction began at a very early age. At five…
The Binary That Binds?
I kid you not… ‘Gender inclusive ‘school district says drop ‘boys and girls,’call kids’purple penguins’ In its quest for “welcomeness” the Lincoln, Nebraska school system, under the guidance of individuals with superior ‘intellect’ and with visions of sugar plum equality fairies dancing in their heads have told their teaching staff to not use the appellation…
If Its True Its Not New OR Don’t Stick Your Head in the Oven
Following on the heels of my previous post “The Vision of the Anointed is Our Nightmare; Ivy league Progressives and Their Creeping Racism” I offer the following video discussion. And, once again, real adults are involved. No trigger warnings issued here. The discussion led by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute centers on the current…
Worker Bees, Outcome Based Education and Our Little Ones
“The US education reform system creates…”Worker bees—cooperative, collaborative, team players, not too well educated but willing to work for a pittance for the good of the collective whole (ie, the state). Knowledge is power! A culturally illiterate nation will not long remain free. William Pearson Tolley, Chancelor of Syracuse University, 1943, “In a slave state,…
