It seems a bit incomplete if I somehow don’t quite make a comment on expressing yourself in the week after we had completed one round of presentations. While the presentations were full of really useful and good content which I am sure students spent time gathering, often the presentations were not as engaging as they [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Express yourself
Posted in Back to school, LA on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Disappointments
Posted in Back to school, LA, Personal on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know this is a topic we all hate. We all hate disappointments. These are times in our lives when events and people in our lives don’t turn out the way we want them to. These are times when we set up expectations about how we would like things to turn out. And these expectations [...]
Getting to know you
Posted in Back to school, LA on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I mentioned a number of times how much I valued my first lot of students since I returned to teaching. They were a wonderful bunch being a good students and more importantly, really nice people. In fact, I still see quite a bit of some of them as they still come back to their home [...]
It’s all relative anyway
Posted in Back to school, LA on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week, we started the topic of ethics. I am sure it is tough thinking about strange sounding concepts like absolutism and relativism. I am always amused when I think of the statement “All truth is relative” as a self contradictory proposition. It seems to sum up for me philosophical discussions sometimes.
It is not easy [...]
Hello 2008!
Posted in Back to school, LA, Personal on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. This book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
(Edith Lovejoy Pierce)
What a lovely sentiment to start the New Year with. (With a name like Lovejoy, she would need to be all positive right?) [...]
