September 2010
10 posts
Adventures in Teaching (My kids make me smile)
Teacher: He says there are cannibals on the island. What is a cannibal?
Student: Cannibal... is that a type of moose?
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Teacher: What kind of nouns are these? Freedom and joy?
Student 1: They are ideas.
Teacher: Right, so we can't touch them. They aren't concrete. What's the opposite of concrete
Students: ...
Teacher: Starts with an "a," ah-, ab-
Student 2 (quietly): Asphalt?
August 2010
8 posts
Anne Frank's Beloved Chestnut Tree Falls →
Mitt Romney on Muslim Community Center/Mosque at... →
“In 2007, when he was running for the Republican nomination for president, Romney gave a speech …he spoke glowingly of religious liberty and the separation of church and state. He also said he had himself learned much not only from Catholics, evangelicals and Jews but also from “the commitment to frequent prayer of the Muslims.”…
According to a statement released on August 10 by...
“LOVE is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The...”
– Emily Dickinson
“A young woman entering her freshman year of college is at her greatest risk of...”
– Facebook | The Women’s Self Defense Institute (via impactsafety)
"Vie de meuf", miroir de l'inégalité... →
(French only. Via LeMonde.)
