Lynn over at
Bore Me to Tears (the blog that asks if you’re an Ant trying to understand the Internet) posted about whether or not kids should be tested for knowledge and I wrote a comment that threatened to turn into a short novel, so I figured I’d better post here instead. First of all, [...]
One of those sayings that I’m really tired of hearing is: “It takes two to argue.” True, but it only takes one to disagree. For instance, if one says to one’s child, “The sky is a beautiful shade of blue today,” and one’s child says, “No, it’s not really blue. It’s blueish-gray,” and you bite [...]
Who doesn’t remember Sparta and Athens, those city states which were so easy to study because they were direct opposites. Well, at least they were the way history was taught in the early sixties when we labored over dioramas of burly athletes trouncing skinny guys in togas. I remember that we touched lightly on Aristophanes [...]
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