The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a...
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of t...
Each time I walk into a classroom, I can choose the place within myself from which my teaching will come, just as I can choose the place within my students toward which my teaching will be aimed. I ne...
We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.
The writer Anne Lamott says, You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.28
Alice Kaplan is a teacher of French language and literature, and she has done this kind of remembering in a book called French Lessons. Why do people want to adopt another culture? she asks as she sum...
The message of such silence is simple: "we the people" will no longer conspire in supporting the illusions that help corrupt leaders maintain control. By withholding our cheers and falling into silenc...