Any community that gathers and preserves its own stories is contributing, in the most fundamental way possible, to the world’s educational value, and students are learning how the world works, how things come into existence and how they pass away. The sense of historical inevitability so common in textbooks–that things turned out as they had to or as they were supposed to–is replaced by an understanding of the freedom of characters to act and react. They learn better how much our destiny is in our hands, which is, after all, why education matters. . . . → Read More: Toward a New Story for Schooling
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 One comment - (Comments are closed)  Ask, Community-Centered, Essential Questions, Explore, Listen, Narrative Environment, Place, Reflect, Research, Schools, Teaching, Tell  Education, Honesty, narrative story, Truth McTeigue’s choice of state-run Christian fascism as the source of villainy seems itself more like propaganda than serious art. In brief, the main danger to freedom in Europe now is the same as it was when Orwell wrote: the drive of socialism to progressively increase the depth and breadth of its control. By making the danger out to be Christianity, McTeigue goes along with what the socialists have always said. . . . → Read More: Comparing V for Vendetta to 1984 The Roman soldiers who killed a teacher two thousand years ago killed people often–mostly rebels, robbers, and thugs. The system of which they were a part, the Roman state, had taught them to take honor in their work defending the order. They knew little or nothing of the dirty, bloodied commoner, or what he . . . → Read More: What’s wrong with these kids? 2/24 Each of us contends against systems, vast in their scale and deep in their effects, that organize us into patterns that often operate outside our field of vision. Just as geese fly south in the winter without understanding the urge they feel, so we often act for reasons we cannot name. As with magnetic force or gravity, we cannot see the forces that work on us and through us, though we can see their effects. They are manifest in patterns around us, and if we do not learn to see and evade some attractions, we are organized into contests that may not serve our best purposes. . . . → Read More: An ecology of war |
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