“The canoe is an island and the island is a canoe.”
“The island is Earth. We learn to take care of the canoe as we would our island home.”
- Nainoa Thompson.
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Mālama Honu’a.
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I have a new argument for you, Beat. It may not play well in our country, at least with some of our own people, but it’s an especially relevant argument for today:
What we do not only affects America. It affects our world. That’s why we need to get our own House in order.
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Tracey Mann may think he's done with me, but I'm not done with him. Why? Because he's still my "Representative." Call me crazy, but I think representatives are supposed to respond to their constituents.
Healing the World.
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The whole thing, and also living abroad in general, makes it so that when I read Americans complain about "students" or "universities today" or even just "society" I constantly feel the need to mentally add an "*in the United States" qualifier that is always absent.
Also, where I was at does mandatory attendance taking, and more than 2 unauthorized absences is an automatic fail. If students want to "authorize" an absence (e.g. for illness) they go through the central administration, not me. Harsh by US standards, but attendance was very good as a result!
Most of my students were international study abroad students so I cannot generalize about them versus American students very well (literally 30% of them were American students!), not that I would do that online anyway.
The total class time was also shorter than a US semester system — 2 hours per week for 12 weeks. I imagine that must vary by institution. In the US my classes were either 2.5 or 3 hours per week for 13 weeks. I constantly felt like we were running out of time as a result.
That jibes with other indications I've gotten about the differences between US and European (and French) pedagogy — what I have heard/seen is the latter is very hierarchical, top-down, lecture-driven, whereas in the US the push for decades has been for less of that.
By US standards I would say the class was a hybrid lecture/discussion course, and even the discussion had a lot of me talking. But one advanced European student remarked that this was the most interactive course they had ever taken in their university experience.
This is pie in the sky thinking, but I think if more American professors taught a course in a different kind of educational system early or mid-career, it would lead to more creative thinking about how things could be done differently — or better — in the US.
It's an obvious point, that one knows what one knows and Americans can be provincial in ways that even the very educated and relatively worldly don't realize, but living abroad makes it really, truly hit home that there are other ways to do things (which have their own problems, etc.).
I taught my last lecture/class today, of my first class ever taught outside of the United States (in Paris). It was very interesting to see how US and European (particularly French, but I gather broader than France) expectations were for how classes operate at the university level.
“Mercy, Mercy.”
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Happy Earth Day! Our planet is beautiful.
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Lol 😂🤣
If you don’t enjoy roller coasters…stay off the ride.
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May He Rest in Peace.
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Super sad news here about a really decent person and legendary editor and reporter. Dan and I were local news reporters for Wash Post covering Northern Virginia back in 1990s.
Dan Eggen, who shaped politics coverage at The Washington Post, dies at 60
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
This included the Holocaust.
As one historian concluded:
“If Speer’s extensive involvement in the Holocaust had been known at the time of his trial, he would have been sentenced to death.”
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It was only after Speer’s death in 1981 that historians began a concerted - and successful - effort to burst the “Speer Myth.”
Their years of research and writing have conclusively demonstrated that Albert Speer was deeply aware - and involved - in decision making in the Nazi Party.
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But…they were wrong.
And in reality, they had been deceived, by none other than Speer himself.
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For many years, many people - including historians - believed that Albert Speer was a “good” Nazi, that he was the “calm” and “rational” Nazi, compared to the other leaders of German National Socialism.
“Look at that. The best guests always arrive late.”
- Hermann Fegelein (about Albert Speer), “Downfall” (2004).
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TACO Tuesday.
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Well written (and well argued), my good Sir!
Keep up the good writing.
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Update on this. I told my parents about the president talking trash about the Pope and my Dad's first instinct was to ask, “Well, what did the Pope say?” I shirt you not.
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