DaveTown http://blog.davewalker.org Truth, Wit, Relevance. Or at least 2 out of 3 on any given day. Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:33:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 DaveTown – The Tumblr Years http://blog.davewalker.org/2013/03/31/davetown-the-tumblr-years/ http://blog.davewalker.org/2013/03/31/davetown-the-tumblr-years/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:27:37 +0000 Dave http://blog.davewalker.org/2013/03/31/ Continue reading →]]> For a couple years now, this particular version of my blog has been lost in cyberspace, only to reappear in the last week or so. I moved the whole operation over to Tumblr. You can see it Here.

Here  is some of the stuff I’ve enjoyed while looking around Tumblr.

 

 

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– George MacDonald

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  • You have to like kids. This is the sine qua non of teaching. If you don’t genuinely like kids, go be a Mall Cop, where this would be an advantage.
  • You really have to have a keen sense of humor that can transcend barriers of age, gender, and ethnicity. Mostly, you have to be able to laugh at yourself.
  • Don’t “mind” very much stuff. The more you don’t mind, the more you can put up with. Save “minding” for the important issues, like knife fights and fire drills.
  • Pick your battles. This applies to your bosses as well as your charges.
  • Do not succumb to the “quantity over quality” hysteria that has overtaken public education (in other words, don’t sweat the standardized tests).
  • Remember it is impossible to impose intrinsic motivation upon another human being, and that extrinsic motivation isn’t really the friend of quality education.
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    ]]>     http://blog.davewalker.org/2009/03/05/my-first-toondoo/feed/ 0     Nail . . . Head http://blog.davewalker.org/2009/02/12/nail-head/ http://blog.davewalker.org/2009/02/12/nail-head/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:56:28 +0000 Dave http://blog.davewalker.org/?p=561 Dave hits the nail on the head with this post about power vs. ideology as the engine that drives politics.

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    “The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”

    – Ram Dass.

    Pain is unavoidable in life. Suffering is however optional.

    – Henrik Edberg


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    Money quote:

    Sometimes the bad news is the good news. So it is with the report
    that retail sales are down by 0.1 percent in July, the sharpest drop in
    many months.

    Why good news? It means that consumers are starting to cut back.
    They could be going into less debt. They might be saving more. They are
    being more careful about long-term plans pending short-term trends.

    These are all preconditions for recovery. It’s only bad news if one
    adopts the crude theory that economies are sustained by consumer
    spending.

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    – Albert Einstein

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    • “You keep using that word . . . I do not think it means what you think it means.”

    (Mandy Patinkin in The Princess Bride)

    • “You know, black and white would capture the moment so nicely”

    (John Cusack in Sixteen Candles)

    • “John Dillinger was killed behind that theater in a hail of FBI gunfire. You know who tipped them off? His F*****g girlfriend . . . all he wanted to do was go to the movies.

    (John Cusack in High Fidelity)

    • “He said to me: When you die, on your deathbed, you will receive . . . Total Consciousness. So I got that goin’ for me . . . which is nice.”

    (Bill Murray in Caddy Shack)

    • Rooster Cogburn: “I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned, or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker’s convenience . . . which’ll it be? Ned Pepper: “I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man” Rooster Cogburn: “Fill your hands you sonofabitch!”

    (John Wayne and Robert Duvall in “True Grit”)

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