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A Blue-Collar Girl in a White-Collar World
I am republishing this piece written by my daughter Emma and originally published on Daily KOS (click here to see on Daily KOS). Also some extensive replies Emma made to some comments she got… I am...
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21st Century “Hybrid” Education
Saw this recent piece in Ed Week, “Hybrid Home Schools Gaining Traction”, highlighting a trend which may turn out to be the new emerging norm for education as we get deeper into this new century....
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Synergizing Entrepreneurship and a Strong Commons
As a progressive, I continue to be frustrated with the ideological split in our country’s governing bodies that seems to be preventing them from addressing key issues that will help us move forward as...
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Unschooling in the Art of Writing
This is another chapter in my series of looks back at my own development and how I learned most of the skills that are critical to my life today outside of any school or other formal education...
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Fundamentally Opposed to Mandatory Standardized Education
So I was in the mood for a rant today… You’ve been warned… Based on all my life’s experience, all the principles I hold dear, and all my study of human history and development, I am fundamentally...
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Rethinking the US Education System
I was intrigued by the title of this blog piece, “It’s Time to Re-Think the U.S. Education System”, by Tammy Erickson for the Harvard Business Review. When it comes to our education system, I translate...
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Unschooling in the Art of Self-Direction
From my own experience and what I’ve read of the wisdom of others, directing ones own life is not a science that can be taught through instruction but an art that is best developed from self-initiated...
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Let’s Have a Real Discussion about Education Policy
Back in August President Obama gave a speech about education policy at Canyon Springs High School in Las Vegas. Here’s a snippet posted in a blog piece… Education should not be a Democratic or a...
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Thoughts on the Election & Human Progress
My “ministry” is all about celebrating and championing human development at an individual and societal level. A key thread in that development (at both the individual and societal level) is our...
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Towards the 21 Hour Work Week
Sustainability… it will by all accounts be a key theme of 21st century human society. Sustainable agriculture, energy use, carbon footprint, and average family size are already on the table towards...
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Living a Self-Directed Life One Week at a Time
Human society is gradually transitioning from hierarchies of domination and control towards egalitarian circles of equals. At least that’s my take on things, and my “life’s work” including this writing...
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Traditional Human Wisdom of Child Development
For the first 200,000 years of the human species we were all hunter-gatherers, nomadic tribes of people scattered about the Earth living in sync with the natural ecology of our bountiful planet. It is...
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Reincorporating Hunter-Gatherer Wisdom in our Society
In my previous piece, “Traditional Wisdom of Child Development”, I looked at how contemporary social scientists are rediscovering some of the wisdom of traditional hunter-gatherer societies, which were...
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From Civilization to a Circle of Equals
What follows is an outline of a book I intend to write and get published (even if self-published) in the next few years, based on a lot of the reading, thinking and writing I have done to date. The...
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We Need to Move Away from One-Size-Fits-All Education
On Thursday I read an Education Week blog piece, “Survey Finds Rising Job Frustration Among Principals”, highlighting the Metlife Survey of American Teachers documenting declining morale among both...
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Moving Beyond Civilization’s Tools of Control
This is a follow-up on my previous piece, “From Civilization to a Circle of Equals”, where I put forward a view that human civilization, since its flowering 5000 years ago with the invention of...
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Please Support North Valley Caring Services!
Los Angeles is an amazingly diverse megalopolis including so many immigrant communities struggling to build roots in our city and our country. I have gotten involved with one such community… Spring...
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Is the World Ready for a God-Embracing Atheist?
They teach you that when in a job interview if asked whether you have a particular skill or experience and you must honestly say no, it is best to say “no but…” followed by sharing some other skill or...
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Facilitating Many Political Paths
It seems we Americans are caught up in and even obsessed with dualities. Good and evil, god or no god, democracy or tyranny, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, men are from Mars and women...
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Governance in the School Trenches
My friend, Peter DeWitt, is a public elementary school principal in upstate New York. He is a thoughtful and caring person, and I think probably represents the best of his public school principal...
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