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Thursday, November 30, 2006
Late Night Ranting Blake Ewing lays the smack-down on the church with the most presumptuous name in town. And for Tulsa, Okla-freakin'-homa, that's saying something. Saturday, November 11, 2006
Great U2 and Green Day Video of The Saints are Coming Here's a link to the whole live set from Monday Night Football back in September. Friday, November 10, 2006
For all interested parties I've started a new blog over at educationcoup.blogspot.com and will be posting all education related posts on that from now on. I desire your input (especially if you consider yourself an educator... that means you, too, Aola), as I hope to aid in starting a school here in the Tulsa area and will want to bounce ideas off of people. Hop on over for a visit. And Yet Another Dorothy Sayers presented this essay entitled "The Lost Tools of Learning" at Oxford in 1947. Her descriptions of the deficiencies in the product of our educational system is amazing. What's scary is that people still don't seem to see it. What she describes here, though, at the beginning of her essay is what I see every day. Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Another Education Oriented Post I have a question for you all. Recently I've been mulling over the notion of grades. At the school I teach at, grades are oppressive. They exercise tyrannical control over the educational lives of the students. See, like most educational institutions, grades have ceased to be what they were intended to be. Rather than a tool used to assess a student's understanding and mastery of a certain subject, they have become the end or the goal. The implications of this are considerable. Our students know full well that they can get an "A" in a class without ever having to learn anything. Some of them do so because they are very bright, and find ways of memorizing facts just long enough to be able to regurgitate them for a test. Some simply cheat. Neither feels any tinge of a notion that they've let an opportunity slip by them. In fact, they feel successful. I believe that much in our educational system would be improved if we found a way to stop putting the cart before the horse and made mastering the subject matter the goal, rather than some abstract "grade" that has no ultimate value. So I'm turning the question over to you. Think about it and post away. The sky's the limit. If you were charged with the task of returning grades to their rightful place, and could do whatever you liked to the educational system, what would you do? How would you accomplish your goal? Monday, November 06, 2006
If this isn't unhealthy... "I would call it hypocrisy, but we have to remind ourselves that for every one minister who has fallen, we must remind ourselves of the hundreds of thousands of ministers who DON'T fail... who love other people and who honestly live moral lives." --Joyce Meyer to Diane Sawyer in response to the question: "How do you respond to those who say that this is just another sign of Christians saying one thing and living another?" How about "No one is righteous," Joyce? But, hey, what do I know? I'm certainly not a superstar preacher. Sunday, November 05, 2006
Zedler On Audio and PDF Here's a link to Zedler's message from Bread of Life last week (and accompanying PDF version). I encourage everyone who visits here to listen to it.
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Jimmy Doyle is a dad, husband,
teacher, friend, and other things. Currently he's just trying to figure out what it means to follow Christ and be in community with others. He enjoys having conversations with fellow pilgrims on the journey.
Stephen Zedler has a wife and three kids who he loves very much. He has been called by God to study and teach history, particularly U.S.
history. He also believes that God has called him to reform the way children are educated in America.