Tag: Wendell Berry

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.

The idea of 'work' is present in educational discourse almost entirely under the terms 'career readiness.' This alludes to the perceived purpose of school.

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 ...

Start Small: A Wendell Berry Commencement Address by Terry Heick Almost every challenge, when closely examined, is first a challenge of scale. If you consider our own corner of the ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

'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 ...

The New Commercial Education by Terry Heick For a quick read and a little humor, here is some bullet-point sarcasm about the "new commercial education" from Wendell Berry (via The Joy Of Sales ...

Learning Through Humility by Terry Heick Humility is an interesting starting point for learning. There is a tempting sense of empowerment in our current "age of information" that can lead ...