Adam's Curse

Adam's Curse

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Teaching Like a State
Bureaucracy, Heuristics, and Educating for Real Life
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Teach the Human not the Tool
One Mind. Any Weapon.
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An Elegy for the Word
Poetry in Wartime
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Mighty Hearts: Memorial Day 2025
In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.
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The Workshop of Being
William James, Streams of Consciousness, and Log Walls
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Bare Recommendations: Reading February and March
Hilaire Belloc, Mark Shepard, Guy Kawasaki, Gil Bailey.
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Experiential Opportunity Cost
The Reality Battery
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Restoring Raw Experience Part II
The Thing Itself
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Restoring Raw Experience
Building the soil of raw experience necessary for learning to take root
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Survival Among the Cyborgs
Philosophy, the body, and cyborgs in education today
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Not About You.
You probably think it is...but...
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Winter Reading: December and January
Firearms, Tao, Bookleggers, and IMPRO
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IMPRO - Dullness and Education
Keith Johnstone was a British theater director and improvisation guru who died just two years ago.
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Walking in Briancon
Dispatch from the ambulatory school of the French Alps
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Adam's Curse
Adam's Curse
"There is no fine thing since Adam's fall but needs much laboring." -W.B. Yeats. Literature, leadership, and locale in an age of mass culture.
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