Tag Archives: Education
It’s Real
I saw this photo online last week and chuckled. I figured it was worth sharing, even if I wasn’t sure if it was real. It is. In 2018 Black River Meats in Vermont added these instructions to their packaging. I don’t know if they still have them – but if I am near a grocery […]
The Tuesday after Labor Day is traditionally the first day of school here. For forty straight years either my wife, children or I would head out the door on this Tuesday morning to start another school year. That didn’t happen today. It felt weird. It isn’t that no-one in the family went to school today, […]
The Consequence
Welcome to Flashback Friday, a look back at this space from past years. Today’s post first ran eight years ago today, April 26, 2016. Anyone with half a brain could have seen it coming. That no-one did is probably because there were politicians involved. A couple of years back the Ontario government decided that sick leave […]
Problem Solving
I hate returning items to the store that haven’t lived up to expectations. I resent the time and hassle. Why couldn’t they get it right the first time? When I had to return some sunflower seeds to my local bulk food store, it seemed to me somewhat of an imposition. I don’t eat sunflower seeds. […]
The Chapel
In my younger years I was a student at Carleton University in Ottawa, a relatively new institution which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. So I hesitate to make a comparison between Carleton and Cambridge University, which has been a seat of higher learning for more than 800 years. But I’m going to anyway. […]
Unintended Consequences
Anyone with half a brain could have seen it coming. That no-one did is probably because there were politicians involved. A couple of years back the Ontario government decided that sick leave for teachers was costing the province way too much. Change the system, the experts said, and reap the savings. Under the old system […]
Teacher X
He was not the worst teacher I ever had. Or maybe he was. More than 40 years later I can’t decide. He knew his subject, which I guess is a plus. But his treatment of his students was, at the very least, disrespectful. I think his classroom management methods built up resentment and stifled the […]
September Again
It has been the same ritual every September. I ask my daughter how her first day of school went. It may It have been good, it may have been indifferent, but she always manages to tell me “I hate school.” For eighteen straight Septembers that was our ritual. Until last year. Suddenly she was excited […]
What Is A Platonic Solid?
There is a television game show called “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?” I’ve always felt I was, so I have never bothered to watch it. My niece turned 14 last weekend, so naturally there was a family gathering. When our family get together talk invariably turns to school, and she was asked what […]
Education Museum II
It is located in a former church, which isn’t that surprising. As I have previously noted, when Ypres was rebuilt following the First World War there were a lot of churches that had been destroyed that were rebuilt just as they had been once the conflict started. A century later there is no need for […]
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