“To Err is human; to forgive, divine”—Alexander Pope Softening, or “pussification,” as the late, great comedian George Carlin defined it, is destroying the integrity of authentic learning. When people fuck with the integrity of the learning process, when they weaken it and make it soft, it corrupts individuals and society far more than we knowContinueContinue reading “Calling a Spade a Spade”
Tag Archives: learning
Podcast: Meet World Traveling Yoga Teacher, Changu Changezi
003: Podcast with Changu Changezi Changu Changezi is an ordinary guy with an inspiring story about learning and landscapes. He is a traveling Bikram yoga teacher who lives his life with integrity, authenticity, and an unshakeable sense of self. He has been traveling the world teaching Bikram yoga for the past four years, approaching learningContinueContinue reading “Podcast: Meet World Traveling Yoga Teacher, Changu Changezi”
Share this:
Podcast: Grace Tempany, Multi-potentialite and teacher-extraordinaire
Grace and I discuss our desire to begin a conversation about teaching as moral and teaching with courage and integrity. We discuss the need for more authentic forms of teaching and learning in school, so that kids can embark on their individual journeys toward the self rather than just trying to find the right answerContinueContinue reading “Podcast: Grace Tempany, Multi-potentialite and teacher-extraordinaire”
Share this:
Tough-Love Lessons of Bikram Yoga
“We students (and future teachers) needed to learn how to be “unknowing,” to embrace beginner’s mind, become skilled followers; we were being asked to suspend our authoritarian ways of thinking to become humble, open, and flexible enough to learn about yoga postures and anatomy and mostly ourselves. How can you understand others or help themContinueContinue reading “Tough-Love Lessons of Bikram Yoga”
Share this:
The Pain and Hurt of Yoga
“Gaining…wisdom might hurt a little bit, but there’s no better process to dedicate yourself to than mining your own suffering for meaning and truth. And there is no better profession than teaching to witness such beautiful transformation.”
Share this:
Meta: Why Learning? Why Landscapes?
Some of the most amazing learning happens beyond academia, and many of the best teachers positively affect lives outside of strictly academic environments. I hope to find lifelong students and teachers of all sorts, in various domains, to explore the exciting and valuable learning that occurs everywhere and deliver these stories to the world. In this metaContinueContinue reading “Meta: Why Learning? Why Landscapes?”
Share this:
I am here. Now what?
A meditation on learning and brief defense of the humanities. Life is suffering. Life is one big problem; it’s problem after problem after problem after problem, isn’t it? I am not trying to be Debbie Downer here, but this is the fundamental truth of human life–it involves suffering. Nobody denies that pain is true.ContinueContinue reading “I am here. Now what?”
Share this:
Dear Efficient Utilitarian Student,
Dear Efficient Utilitarian Student, It’s not your fault that you were raised with the great American values of utility and efficiency. These values are enacted and followed by virtually everyone around you– your parents, your school, your government; they’ve been enacted throughout most of American history, especially in the Industrial Revolution, in the world ofContinueContinue reading “Dear Efficient Utilitarian Student,”
