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My Take on Group Work and Lazy Grasshoppers

August 21, 2010 – 3:49 pm

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of [...]

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Facades Are Fake.

August 17, 2010 – 9:46 pm

Mamacita says:  All this talk about how it’s the teacher’s fault whenever a student does badly at school. . . . I can’t help but think that these people must blame the photographer if their kid is homely.  Isn’t it – sometimes – the same thing?

Photoshop faces or abilities or personalities all you want: if [...]

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You Want A Creation Theory? I’ll Give You A Creation Theory!

July 19, 2010 – 12:05 am

On my Flickr page, there is a picture of a dulcimer.
Mamacita says:  Back in the day, all middle school/junior high students had to take shop and home ec. They entered high school, and life, knowing how to use a hammer and nails, how to put together a simple meal, how to sew a straight seam, [...]

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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

July 7, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  Regarding any educator at any level, in any capacity, and in any kind of economic region, who is not making an effort to be extremely computer-savvy. . . . shame on you.
I know first-hand what kind of travesties can occur when an administrator doesn’t know anything about a computer, and I think it’s [...]

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I Agree With Aristotle.

July 3, 2010 – 3:46 am

Mamacita says:  There are many things that are wrong with and in this country – many, many things. Open a newspaper, watch television, listen to the radio, surf around the blogosphere, pretty much all we hear about are the things that are wrong.
We SHOULD be hearing about them, too; if we don’t hear about [...]

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Is Your Child A Civilized, Sentient Person?

June 17, 2010 – 11:43 am

Mamacita says:  Don’t get me wrong. I believe in testing: to a point.
I do not believe that a student who can’t pass a simple test of basic skills should be graduated from high school. I do not believe that a student who can’t pass a simple test of basic skills should be promoted at all, [...]

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It’s True. I’m A Snob. You Should Be, Too.

June 13, 2010 – 7:41 pm

This is from several years ago, but it’s been updated, and it’s still true.  I don’t suffer fools gladly, and I don’t think you should, either. A great deal of the world’s problems stem from suffering fools.
Mamacita says:  When people’s lives are focused primarily on television shows, celebrity antics, pizza delivery, Nascar *, sports, farting, [...]

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Facts Are The Enemy of Truth

May 22, 2010 – 6:12 pm

Repost from May 19, 2006.  Because it was on my mind.  It’s always on my mind.
This is the irrational season
When love blooms bright and wild,
Had Mary been filled with reason,
There’d have been no room for the child.
–by Madeleine L’Engle
Madeleine has been one of my idols for many years.  I quote her frequently in this post.  [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Behavior

March 27, 2010 – 2:51 am

Mamacita says:  Behavior.  It’s on my mind.   Watching a mother allow her child to play roughly with an unpaid-for toy throughout the store, then discarding it at the checkout without paying for the damage, disgusted me, and I mentioned it on Twitter and was immediately challenged by a mother who saw nothing wrong with such [...]

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Six Word Saturday

March 27, 2010 – 1:27 am

Kmart’s toy aisle isn’t a daycare.

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