What have we become? Imagine your average American small town farming community. White picket fences, green fields, and red barns
Month: June 2010
Twenty Dollars: Only by Looking Back Can We Look Ahead
It was the last day of school, May, 1984. Mr. Mehlhaff, who at that time was my administrator, gave me
Teaching
Tony Dungy was uncharacteristically angry.
Rewards
They became immediately upset. On a speaking tour some years ago, the teachers sitting in front of me were visibly
Leadership
She began to read aloud.
Justice
Everyone is using the phrase social justice these days. For some it means making up for past wrongs. Others suggest
History
An architect friend recently told me about 100 year old monuments his firm re-embedded into new bridgework. The monuments remember
Flaws
“I had murdered them all myself.”[1] G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown detective stories are unique in their search for human wrongdoing.
Education
Culture promotes a popular myth concerning the teenage years: 13-18 year olds listen more to their peers than their parents.
Complexity
In Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science Dr. Atul Gawande writes: “We look for medicine to be an