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...snakes and badgers wielding clubs and the entire abbey feasting on pot pies and drinking cordials far into the night. And I was content. Sometimes, though, in the library for after-school (‘cause Hebrew School didn’t start till four), in between rounds of Truth or Dare, ignoring the screening of The Rescuers Down Under (as sweet as it is, they showed it every week), I might occasion a glance at the shelves. And oh! What is this rare breed? A Choose Your Own Adventure book. Garbage, I knew, but oddly captivating. What autonomy...
...academic texts and their own experience would lead them to be better citizens, and he emphasized the relationship between experiential learning and participation in a community. “By wisdom,” he wrote, “we mean not systematic and proved knowledge of fact and truth, but a conviction about moral values, a sense for the better kind of life to be led.” According to Dewey, knowledge was meant to give students the tools to understand themselves and their societies so that they could live active, engaged lives.The new Gen Ed proposal, which...
...believe the parables served up on FKB is debatable in an age when kids are bred on cynicism. But back then, to me, growing up in a nice middle-class clan with a passing resemblance to the Andersons, the show had the ring of familiarity, if not of gospel truth. Though I didn?t always follow the precepts peddled by Jim and Margaret, I was raised on them. It wouldn?t be a stretch to say that FKB was the documentary of my 1950s - the way the '70s PBS series An American Family might have mirrored real life for younger...
...that the U.S. is cutting and running, but after $1 trillion and 3,000 dead, we're in 11th-hour, face-saving, loss-cutting mode now. It's possible that 18 months isn't enough time for the Iraqis to meet the goals set out by Khalilzad today. The truth is that no one knows how long it will take for Iraq to make peace with itself. But it's time for the U.S. to make it clear that we don't intend to stay to find...
...that I'm not excited about becoming American. I am. Sort of. I mean think of the advantages: Jury duty! Voting in primaries! Dirty looks from other nationalities! But the truth is that right up until I became an American, I was an Extraordinary Alien (Really, that's what my green card was called.) I could work and live in America and not have to stand for the national anthem. Ah, those were the days. You got to go on the short line at the airport but you didn't have to own up to being the same nationality...