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.
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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?
’Getting a job’ is not the purpose of school.
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. “…all our problems tend to gather under two questions about knowledge: Having the ability and desire to know, how and what should we learn? And, having learned, how and for what should we use what…
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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 corrective policy, there are few ideas as easy to get behind as equity. Equal. Equality. Equity. Equilibrium. Equate. These are all fine ideas—each tidy and whole, implying their own kind of justice while connotating the…
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Ep. 22 Education And Entrepreneurship With Dyme Startup Founder Joey Prather
Ep. 22 Education And Entrepreneurship With Dyme Startup Founder Joey Prather by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought Professional Development This is episode 22 of the TeachThought Podcast! Drew Perkins talks with Dyme startup founder Joey Prather about the parallels between the startup and the education worlds and how being more entrepreneurial can benefit teaching and learning. Links…
Meeting Wendell Berry
Meeting Wendell Berry by Terry Heick “Because of the penmanship.” The man I’d been chasing for ten years now had been speaking with two authors seated next to him at what appeared to be a wooden supper table, but covered in books and coffee. After a decade of endless and painful reconciliation between belief and…
“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 about the future, and ultimately–finally–love. By our resident muse, Wendell Berry, here is “The Peace Of Wild Things.” The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in…
Wendell Berry And Preparing Students For “Good Work”
Wendell Berry And Preparing Students For “Good Work” by Terry Heick Ed note: this was was republished from its original publishing on Berry’s birthday in 2015–thus the publishing date shown and first line being out of agreement. Today (August 5th) is Wendell Berry’s 81st birthday. The influence of Berry on my life–and thus inseparably from…
‘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 odds with our natural pattern to constantly seek new and more. Thus is born our daily struggle. Poet, farmer, essayist, and teacher Wendell Berry laments his own “lack of simple things” in ‘The Want of Peace,’…
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