Ten Reasons to Ban Pencils in the Classroom
2016-06-21
You’d be hard-pressed to find a school anywhere that has enacted a blanket ban on pens and pencils. Here are 10 reasons to reconsider the widespread acceptance of these distracting and potentially dangerous implements.
Quote – Cassandra Clare
2014-12-18
One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
Half a Million Secrets
2014-12-14
Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret.com, shares some of the half-million secrets that strangers have mailed him on postcards.
Quote – Gregory Bateson
2014-12-14
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
~Gregory Bateson
Quote – Michael James Oakeshott
2014-12-13
As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors . . . of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves. ~Michael James Oakeshott
Quote – Thomas Jefferson
2014-12-13
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. ~Thomas Jefferson