Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Education First.
When I read some of the posts on the internet in respect to the Presidential election, I am convinced that apart from healthcare, or moreso than perhaps, we need a revamped education curricula. For a country as advanced as ours, I am appalled by the illogic and the vitriol that pervades. I am of the...
Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, September 15, 2008
A WOMAN IS NOT A MAN!
I am to incur the wrath of many. Yet I am of the school which maintains that truth is not changed by the opinions of the many. This is indeed politically incorrect, but will my disputers support their arguments with facts? A woman is not a man; and never can, nor will be. Men and women are...
Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Please Tell Me
Most of us in the West trumpet the fact that God created the Universe. If that is correct, is it not incontrovertible that he created Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews and all the others? How then does one justify despising the other? Would I despise my brother because he takes a different path from...
Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
WHAT IF WE DID NOT?
On my way to work each day, as I walk 14 blocks or so down the street in New York City, I encounter children of all races, many countries, various ethnicities, disparate religions; and of both genders. I am heartened by their spontaneous responses to my waves and comments. As I stop and talk to...
Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
OH WHAT LABELS WE WEAR
How unintentionally we tell people about us. From the moment we leave the house in the morning and until we return if the evening, we are telling everyone we meet about ourselves. Oh what labels we wear. Socrates, the late Dr Fulton J. Sheen, the articulate Catholic priest; the English poet Ben...
Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
YOU!
YOU are not Jesus, Budha, Mohammed, nor any of those to whom millions pay allegiance. But YOU are YOU. We only have faith that any of these persons lived. None of YOU reading this could give incontrovertible evidence that any of them existed. Yet YOU are here. YOU have it in YOU r hands to affect...
Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, July 18, 2008
You See, We Never Know!
It most parts of the world, at this hour, we are leaving for a weekend break. Somehow, we will be back at work on Monday. Or will we? You see I do not know; nor do you. So be glad you saw this week and its end. Pay respect to your neighbour; acknowledge his, or her, presence. Neither of you may be...
Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
TEACHERS' ACCOUNTABILITY FOR STUDENTS' LOW TEST SCORES
This question, Should teachers be held accountable for low student test scores? is being debated constantly.This debate has been brought to the fore, even moreso, by the ongoing Presidential Campaign. Each candidate is trying to placate his constituency by deferring to the teachers' unions and by...
Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Frost: THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
As promised, I am posting another of my favourite poems. Many of you have read it before. But have you carefully, and analytically, thought it through? How do you reconcile, 'Had worn them just the same' to 'I took the one less traveled by?' Is there a contradiction? Are there other contradictions?...
Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, July 7, 2008
IF by Rudyard Kipling
In the next few days, or weeks, I intend to introduce some of what I consider the world's greatest poems. Of course, I will give the respectful attribution. Along the course of my life I have been inspired by these poets and their work. Yes, these words are not mine but, like me, I hope you will...
Sign in to see full entry.
