Monthly Archives: June 2014

Rejected lately (or ever) and looking for encouragement?

on June 3, 2014 in Art, Creativity

Don’t know who Mr. P. Hewson of Dublin, Ireland is? Read the following rejection letter to him and his band to see one of the great rejection letters of all time. (Hint: his band has sold over 150 million albums, the band won 22 Grammy awards, and Rolling Stone magazine ranked them in the top 25 greatest artists of all time). If you didn’t figure it out, RSO records summarily[…] Keep reading →

Does lecturing turn schools into prisons?

on June 2, 2014 in Education

I would be ashamed of myself to teach a class with the passage below in its syllabus. I found it on a public site on the web for a science class—genetics, in particular. You’re putting your children in prison if the punitive passage represents how teachers should manage their classes. Should it seem foreign to me because I chose to study a particularly hard branch of science because I loved[…] Keep reading →

Read more deeply: a list of my longer posts

on June 1, 2014 in Blog

Want to see a subject I cover in more depth? Read one of my series. Sometimes I write a series of posts to develop an idea further than a single post allows. Here is a page listing of all of them. I wish I could convey how valuable the material in them is. I recommend reading them.

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