Talk without walk is perhaps a waste of our time unless we take the time to walk to talk together.
With social media are we risking being alone together and straying far from what is essential in life? Does social media distract from the essential relationship between teacher and pupil? Does personalisation mean individualism and an abandonment of community? What values underpin our transactions, our education?
If education is life and not just a preparation for life what is our role as educators?
If life is what happens to you when you are making other plans (John Lennon?) is learning what happens despite our best laid plans? Is education learning to listen to John Lennon?
If education is what remains after we have forgotten everything we have learnt at school (Einstein) why should we waste our time forgetting?
If Socrates knew he knew nothing, why bother trying to learn something? Or maybe we need to revise our classics?
If Socrates knew he knew nothing, why bother trying to learn something? Or maybe we need to revise our classics?
Money talks, absolute power corrupts absolutely, not all that glistens is gold, love is a smoking gun...
'Birds of a feather flock together'.
Vultures circle around the carcasses, pigeons buy without thought, chickens run around headless, ostriches put their heads in the sand. People are falling like sparrows, while the hawks are watching on from afar.
The Twitter revolution, the Facebook generation, the teacher strike, the surgical strike...let's not forget that when all has been said and done, children and women bleed and careless talk costs lives.
"Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.'
If we are not part of the solution we are part of the problem.
Proverbs I am learning:
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