When I was a young man, from 15 to college graduate at 22, I generally kept my mouth shut in the company of my elders. Much of it was just good manners, which, I note, is in short supply these…
Category: Education
The Hanging of Jake Spoon, a Cautionary Tale for Leftwing School Boards
I’ve written before about the symbolism of the hanging scene in Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove”, which first appeared on TV in 1989. (You’d be the better for having watched it.) I’ve written at least three (2014, 2016 and 2020)…
Teaching the Lost who Don’t Know they are Lost; Basic Considerations
Just sit down for a moment and try to get you head around that notion; “People who are Lost, but don’t know they are Lost”. Consider the popular fairy tale “Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf”, originally from…