We Are We

May 29, 2007 at 9:05pm | 人气 (490) | 评论 | 人人网 | 分享
I've been looking at the International Baccalaureate recently and have marveled how much different it is than the education I got and saw others get while growing up (which was mostly rules joined together with disconnected rules and bad measurement and siloed subjects so apart from each other they never meet).

 

 

Now I know why I chose to self-study and autodidactism in high school, and a specialist program in undergrad, and then Naropa for graduate school:

1. My high school experience was DIY because of lack of cohesion and rigor
2. My undergrad was 'specialist' because that's the only way I could achieve academic continuity
3. And Naropa, of course, because they "teach the whole person" along with the contemplative aspect which dared to ask the questions "Who?" and "Why?" then answered "Us" and "the Earth we live on".

Reminds me also of what Lorenzo Thomas told me once:



There is no "us and them".
There is only us and
"we are we".

 

 

Which was true and I thanked him for it.

Anyway that IB program buzz is what I want to teach and wish I had it as a student, not just because it's precisely Swiss or European, but because it is what it is. I mean fantastic to treat students like students and to let them learn even more fantastic and mesmerizing! (The schools where I taught in the United States were very much built and run like prisons.)

Tell me, how was your school experience?

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Can't Run Away From Me-self

May 27, 2007 at 11:54pm | 人气 (1142) | 评论 | 人人网 | 分享

Ever try to run away from yourself? It can't be done. Trust me, I have tried. The harder you go the closer you get to yourself-running-away-from-yourself!


Am I trying to be safe? Am I an assassin?

 

 

Coincidentally, my Chinese celestial emblem and guardian is supposed to be the Northern "Black Warrior" Tortoise. I don't know exactly what that means except I also imagined a tortoise with a big shell likes to be safe but I guess the mythical denotation is more like 'likes the power of immortality'.

 

 

Is immortality safe or just clever? Something else? If you know about the Northern "Black Warrior" Tortoise please tell me about it.

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ATHF Rescues Me With Entertainment

May 24, 2007 at 6:34pm | 人气 (458) | 评论 | 人人网 | 分享

Yeah, I love Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Adult Swim on the comedy network overall is great but this particular show really takes the cake and leaves me laughing in stitches, especially Shake. I don't know why but the everything-Shake-throws-to-the-ground-explodes gag slays me every time. It's hilarious :)

 

Here's my friend Coach. I'm going to try and get him on the ATHF show coz I think he'd make a good villain or possibly a quiet guy-next-door type who gets really annoyed like Carl does on the show. Maybe Coach should be the Aqua Teenz ring leader?!? You decide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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