How To Teach For Knowledge Through Humility
How would it change the learning process to start with a tone of humility? To clarify what can be known, and what cannot?
Wendell Berry
In Defense Of Absolute Literacy
We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the world as we know it.
Wendell Berry: “Teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.”
“There is finally the pride of thinking oneself without teachers. The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.”
What Is The Purpose Of School?
How much of your intelligence, your affection, your skill, and your pride is employed in your work? What are its ecological and social costs?
Learning Is Different Than Education
Learning Is Different Than Education by Terry Heick Ed note: This post has been updated from an early 2013 post. …
Start Small: A Wendell Berry Commencement Address
“What we need, obviously, is a more intelligent–which is to say, a more accurate–description of the problem.”
‘The Objective’ As Read By Wendell Berry
“Even while I dreamed I prayed that what I saw was only fear and no foretelling, for I saw the last known landscape destroyed for the sake of the objective–the soil bulldozed, the rock blasted.”
A New Definition For Equity In Education
A New Definition For Equity In Education by Terry Heick In a profession increasingly full of angst and positioning and …
Meeting Wendell Berry
Meeting Wendell Berry by Terry Heick “Because of the penmanship.” The man I’d been chasing for ten years now had …
“The Peace Of Wild Things” By Wendell Berry
“The Peace Of Wild Things” By Wendell Berry by TeachThought Staff Presented without context, a beautiful poem about suffering, anxiety …
Wendell Berry And Preparing Students For ‘Good Work’
What is the effect of your work? Did you choose your work, or are you doing it under compulsion as the way to earn money?
‘The Want Of Peace’ By Wendell Berry
‘The Want Of Peace’ By Wendell Berry by Terry Heick There can’t be higher recreation than contentment. This is at …