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Sunday’s Best: Quick and Easy
Another spot-on Nancy strip by Olivia Jaimes today: It’s an unfortunate effect magnified by contemporary culture. People have always made quick judgments. Now it’s even easier to settle into them with even less reflection and with more comfort. (image from … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Disagreeing to Disagree
Today’s Nancy strip seeks to capture something about Our Current Moment, particularly in the recent reality of not knowing what to do with those we disagree with. It’s a bit over-simplified, I’m sure. But it’s still an important thing to … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Nancy’s Changing Mind
Ever since it’s “reboot” a few years ago, Olivia Jaimes’ Nancy has done an admirable job wrestling with the current moment. And while it seems like technology has been a big part of Nancy’s narrative, there have been a number … Continue reading
How to Think in 2020
Each fall I get to read through How to Think by Alan Jacobs with a group of high school juniors. It is an attempt to help students think about thinking, to consider why they have landed where they have landed … Continue reading
Education as Starvation Diet
As with many other areas of life, education tends to be a perpetual victim of trends and fads. Unmoored from any deep-rooted principle or practice, the contemporary classroom and campus now finds itself blown here and there by whatever assertions … Continue reading
Logic Says . . .
Tomorrow brings a wrap to the first quarter of the school year. It also brings a wrap to reading the first half of Alan Jacobs’ How to Think with the juniors to a close. After looking at tests, we’ll do … Continue reading
Cat Poop and Coding
This recent Sunday Frazz comic is definitely going in the How to Think folder. Some people are really like this, I suppose. (image from gocomics.com)
Space Enough, and Time 