[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?

We need to bring the concept of autodidacts back into circulation—those who learn things for the pure joy of learning—the idea that you don’t have to be formally schooled to educate yourself. The word “amateur” comes from the Latin for “love,” and to learn is to love.

We finished our unit on Ancient Egypt today. Yesterday we replicated making papyrus paper, and today we wrote our names in hieroglyphics! #ccesdukes #wearecucps

Throw my ticket in the wind Throw  my mattress out there too Draw  my letters in the sand 'cause you got to understand That tonight I'll be staying here with you. Performed in Montreal, 1975.

Happy 5th Day of May to all who celebrate. 🎥: Bob Dylan performs “Isis” with the Rolling Thunder Revue in Montréal on December 4, 1975.

"The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to perceive them." William Butler Yeats

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

'The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.' Alberto Manguel

Truth.

But there's beauty still. I can't remain indifferent to that. —Anton Chekhov

Lupin Umberto Eco: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits

When Samuel Beckett won the Nobel prize in 1969, he agreed to do a television appearance for a Swedish news station on the one condition that they wouldn’t ask him any questions. One minute of Beckett standing still in silence, thirty seconds of the ocean youtu.be/hYwScABAciA

One of the strongest arguments for teaching classic literature is simply this: If students are never asked to inhabit minds from other times and cultures, they will confuse their own narrow historical moment with universal truth. The canon is an antidote to chronological

I was reading Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground with a group of 9th graders. One student announced, "There is no way someone could actually feel like this on the inside." A classmate replied: "I feel like this every day." The first student was stunned. His understanding of

The great secret of the classics is that, despite their reputation for being boring & antiquated, they are often beautiful and hilarious and devastatingly perceptive, to the degree that people continue to read them for centuries. You will have a richer life for having read them.

But, it’s not wrong that that occurs.

Whole essay is worth reading, but I really liked this paragraph in particular:

If a parent asks how they can help their child succeed in school, please start with the BASICS: •𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩…8-10 hours •𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧…must limit sugar •𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦…let them fail without quickly trying to save them

Every educator needs to keep this Flannery O'Connor gem in a back pocket for the next time a student complains about the relevance or boringness of an older book... “And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste

“The purpose of reading a Shakespeare play in high school is not to know more about Shakespeare, but to drop a seed of great vision into the mind in the hope of stimulating the growth of that mind as a whole.” —Northrop Frye, “Education and the Humanities”