Quaker school through graduation or as a teacher in a Quaker school.
Deborah Hazen
Lost
David Wagoner
=46rom Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems=94 published by the =20
University of Illinois Press in 1999
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:46 AM, David F. Withrow wrote:
> Perhaps irrelevant overstates the situation a bit. Still, as the =20
> elements of learning
> have changed, essentially schools have remained the same. Schools =20
> still reflect an
> assemblyline mentality (established in the 1920's) that was =20
> designed for a time clock
> efficiency of rudimentarily educated population. We break education =20=
> into "logical"
> subjects that rarely intermix. We teach text as the "sole" source =20
> of learning with few
> exceptions that are frequently text based because of time limitations.
>
> Our institutions reflect the content as GOD ideology when skills =20
> are far less fluid than
> the actual content we teach. I am old enough to have had history =20
> textbooks that posited
> Egypt as the first civilization. (Mesopotamia was "only understood =20
> 30 years before. Even
> today we are discovering the potential for new world civilizations =20
> that may predate
> Mesopotamia.) Science and math are clearly fluid. Communication =20
> (often held hostage to
> English classes and textbased delivery) has undergone massive changes.
>
> Using content of some sort to faciltate skill development will be =20
> the most relevant thing
> we do. Yet it is the most underconsidered aspect of our =20
> institutions. Too hidebound by
> our own futureshock we have stayed too long at the fair and our =20
> students hae moved on. I
> still believe taht we have much to offer, if we are only willing =20
> to ascertain what that
> is.
>
> David F. Withrow
> Director of Technology
> Harford Day School
> Bel Air, Maryland 21014
> voice: 410 879 2350 ex 33
> fax: 410 836 5918
> http://www.harfordday.org
>
> The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its =20
> children.
> - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
>
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In =20
> practice, there is.
> - Yogi Berra
>
>
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