Santayanaism
From no great matter, this bon mot: Those who do not know the history of Americans’ ignorance of history seem doomed to point it out repeatedly, acting each time as if it were something new. This morning, I’ve retreated to Chain Cafe, reading student work frantically before heading up to Ocala for an un-Mother’s Day, […]
Chugging along in chapter 8
After the end of the day’s meetings for the Florida Education Association, I went back to my room and intended to grade student papers. Really I did! But then I started to work on the last chapter of Citizen-Scholar, and I’ll just have some serious grading pain later today and tomorrow (when I’ll drive up […]
What the …. ?
In class we disused women in school is one of the stranger statements I’ve read thus far in this batch of student exams. From the repetition of the misspelling elsewhere in the exam, I gather the student meant to write discussed but, um, er, forgot to check the spelling.
The Morning’s Back (and I’m Gonna Be in Trouble)
I’m behind the eight ball this morning on teaching for two reasons: I couldn’t get to sleep before about 3 am and my university’s Blackboard server has bollixed up the upload of my masters class’s major assignment. I’m not sure why I didn’t get to sleep until far too late—probably residual discomfort from the dental […]
Grant!
I just got word today that my college’s mini-grant program awarded me a small amount of money for most people but enough for me to spend a few weeks in Atlanta this summer collecting age-grade tables and other data from the Georgia State Archives for the historical educational attainment and attrition study that’s in my […]