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I know. My teaching style, different from standard as I have sritten about
ad nauseum, it is high product and high risk. The risk is that if you get students who do not care about themselves. And if you have a cowardly administration which is afraid of handing out emowerment, then they begin to die academically, and all you can do is pretend to teach. They will stop learning any way, but you have to cover your assets by producing interesting looking lesson plans (that do nothing) and lecture all day (kids learn nothing) and so on. It's sad. I guess this is going to come down to the last man standing over here. I'm like Richard Pryor, I don't mind getting hurt, but I don't wanna be the last one. That's why that quote is good for me. Nobody knows what we are doing but us. then you look in our portfolios and you see tenth and eleventh-grade compositions written by 6th graders, and you realize that it is worth the risk.
posted by
kingmi
on March 18, 2005 at 8:22 PM
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kingmi, I am renting a yurt for all the bloggers who will come visit! lol
Thank you for sharing that quote...that's good stuff!
posted by
Ariala
on March 18, 2005 at 8:12 PM
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Ariala, Well, I have to worth something if I'm going to be your roomie all
week. I heard a good one tonight in Round one of NCAA. A coach said, people criticise and say what they see. They say what they think you are doing, and they are always wrong. No one knows but the players, the coaches. Everybody else is wrong. so you can take that to da bank. People, these morons attacking you, are projecting their own fears, and don't have the emotional management skills to recognize it.
posted by
kingmi
on March 18, 2005 at 8:11 PM
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kingmi, I just feel as though everyone has such a unique 'frequency'
all their own that complements my own and vice versa. Glad you understand me...some people criticize me for this and imply motives which aren't true. Your kind words made my night and now I can go to sleep feeling better after a very rough day. Thank you, my friend.
posted by
Ariala
on March 18, 2005 at 8:07 PM
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Ariala, Yes I know that. But you have the ability to make people feel that they are special to you. Not a phoniness, a real caring about people. It's humanism, I think, coupled with a need to be liked, as we all have. But that unique combination of stuff makes you the number one guy on the blog.
posted by
kingmi
on March 18, 2005 at 8:03 PM
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kingmi, very good...rational detachment via the logical process is the
best medicine, especially with someone like me. Doesn't mean you're not special to me though...but you know that!
posted by
Ariala
on March 18, 2005 at 7:55 PM
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Ariala, One of my obsessions, yes. Which one? Well, any of them would suf
fice for the purpose of sheer argumentation. Say it was my obsdesion with you. Well, having had that great little explosion of admission and consequent dialogue, whereby you responded in kind to each of my stated reasons. Well, that was enough to get me thinking rationally. I realized that you simply had a lot of talent, alot of time on the mountain, you knew what you were doing, you were working smarter not harder, so on. I was able to release and allow you to exist without my attaching any meaning to anything that you write. That is, meaning that relates specifically to me. See?
posted by
kingmi
on March 18, 2005 at 7:53 PM
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One of your obsessions? Which one, pray tell?
posted by
Ariala
on March 18, 2005 at 7:20 PM
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