--Am planning to return to Washington, DC. If I do go, it will be soon. I'll just have to get used to whatever harassment I come up against! I really like that town.
Reno is great if you gamble; and I don't. But the thing that got to me the most is that there's so many old people in Reno. I imagined I saw an undertaker's hearse at every corner! And the TV is littered here with commercials about handling old age ailments. So, if I leave, I doubt if I'll be back--at least in this lifetime. (If I can't stay in DC, I'll probably head for Omaha, where things are cheaper, anyway.)
--Working: on right now: in the Studies in Interplay series--Teacher and Mentor. It's coming along.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
August 15, 2010 Sunday
completed in the ruminations blog: "de facto Segregation: a fact of human existence." People like to be around others that are like them. Integrating people from various backgrounds has limited success, such that the American vision of persons paying no attention to each others' habits and customs and physical characteristics--the melting pot concept--has limited appeal to the citizenry, to any citizenry.
in the Studies in Interplay: Mentors and Teachers. I wrote last year a ruminations item on the importance of the mentor concept in education. The research item will go into greater depth. The point is, education needs purpose and direction that the mentor can provide, but a teacher can't; and I will attempt to argue this position in some detail. I need to find a library I can use to do the research: will try the University of Nevada-Reno library, if I can use it. I'm following up on John Dewey's philosophy of education, having been trained by his most illustrous student when I attended NYU, Professor Sidney Hook.
still in the offing in the Social-X series: Social Change items.
in the Studies in Interplay: Mentors and Teachers. I wrote last year a ruminations item on the importance of the mentor concept in education. The research item will go into greater depth. The point is, education needs purpose and direction that the mentor can provide, but a teacher can't; and I will attempt to argue this position in some detail. I need to find a library I can use to do the research: will try the University of Nevada-Reno library, if I can use it. I'm following up on John Dewey's philosophy of education, having been trained by his most illustrous student when I attended NYU, Professor Sidney Hook.
still in the offing in the Social-X series: Social Change items.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
August 05, 2010 Thursday
Completed in the ruminations blog: "With the Cross of Jesus, Marching as Before!" It's a terrible thing when religious persons of one persuasion are so convinced their religious tradition embodies the Truth and any other religious tradition is False, such that persons of other traditions must be converted or risk serious repercussions upon them, because of their lingering faith! (We see it as the United States attempts to impose its sense of morality upon the Chinese and upon the entire Islamic world--in a Spirit I think is that of the Medieval Crusades.)
Studies in Interplay: writing up the dynamic relations I've noted between the Turkish government and the Turkish military over many centuries. Of course, I can only write my impressions of this interplay, which may indeed be fanciful. I thought of making a WHACK-O theory entry of this interplay as I envision it, but there are structural relationships I think apply; and so I retain the item as research even if it be research into the fanciful and conjectural!
Studies in Interplay: writing up the dynamic relations I've noted between the Turkish government and the Turkish military over many centuries. Of course, I can only write my impressions of this interplay, which may indeed be fanciful. I thought of making a WHACK-O theory entry of this interplay as I envision it, but there are structural relationships I think apply; and so I retain the item as research even if it be research into the fanciful and conjectural!
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