tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84945495054571245092023-11-16T10:31:52.532-08:00obrienkMr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-23283397400687914412021-10-10T12:43:00.000-07:002021-10-10T12:43:43.484-07:00Helen Vendler: On Teaching Poetry<p> </p>
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<div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;">YouTube:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"How does a master teacher introduce students to poetry? What are the critical choices that she makes to help students experience literature with greater pleasure and understanding? As part of the Bok Center series Reflections on Teaching, poetry critic and scholar Hellen Vendler of Harvard University suggests answers as she guides students through a reading of William Butler Yeats's masterpiece "Among Schoolchildren (1928)" -- Container.
Teaching poetry: Helen Vendler/ Harvard University. Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="o-vr o-vr_12x" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 60px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="c-feature" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.231; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="c-feature-hd" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="c-hdgSans c-hdgSans_2 c-mix-hdgSans_inline" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-family: canada-type-gibson; font-size: 1.75rem; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.231; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43293/among-school-children" target="_blank">Among School Children</a></h1></div><div class="c-feature-sub c-feature-sub_vast" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 33px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c-txt c-txt_attribution" style="border: 0px; color: #494949; display: inline-block; font-family: canada-type-gibson; font-size: 0.875rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 1.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">BY <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-butler-yeats" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS</a></span></div></div><div class="c-feature-bd" style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="o-poem isActive" data-view="PoemView" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">I<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">A kind old nun in a white hood replies;<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">The children learn to cipher and to sing,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">To study reading-books and history,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">To cut and sew, be neat in everything<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">In the best modern way—the children's eyes<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">In momentary wonder stare upon<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">A sixty-year-old smiling public man.<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">II<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">I dream of a Ledaean body, bent<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Above a sinking fire, a tale that she<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">That changed some childish day to tragedy—<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Into a sphere from youthful sympathy,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Or else, to alter Plato's parable,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Into the yolk and white of the one shell.<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">III<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">And thinking of that fit of grief or rage<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">I look upon one child or t'other there<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">And wonder if she stood so at that age—<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">For even daughters of the swan can share<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Something of every paddler's heritage—<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">And had that colour upon cheek or hair,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">And thereupon my heart is driven wild:<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">She stands before me as a living child.<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">IV<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Her present image floats into the mind—<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Did Quattrocento finger fashion it<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">And took a mess of shadows for its meat?<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">And I though never of Ledaean kind<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Had pretty plumage once—enough of that,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Better to smile on all that smile, and show<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow.<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">V<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">What youthful mother, a shape upon her lap<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Honey of generation had betrayed,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">And that must sleep, shriek, struggle to escape<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">As recollection or the drug decide,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Would think her son, did she but see that shape<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">With sixty or more winters on its head,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">A compensation for the pang of his birth,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Or the uncertainty of his setting forth?<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">VI<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Plato thought nature but a spume that plays<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon a ghostly paradigm of things;<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Solider Aristotle played the taws<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon the bottom of a king of kings;<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Fingered upon a fiddle-stick or strings<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">What a star sang and careless Muses heard:<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Old clothes upon old sticks to scare a bird.<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">VII<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Both nuns and mothers worship images,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">But those the candles light are not as those<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">That animate a mother's reveries,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">But keep a marble or a bronze repose.<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">And yet they too break hearts—O Presences<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">That passion, piety or affection knows,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">And that all heavenly glory symbolise—<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">O self-born mockers of man's enterprise;<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">VIII<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Labour is blossoming or dancing where<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">The body is not bruised to pleasure soul,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Nor beauty born out of its own despair,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;">How can we know the dancer from the dance?<br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="o-grid" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="o-grid-col o-grid-col_10of12" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 638.359px;"><div class="o-vr_2x" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c-txt c-txt_note c-txt_note_mini" style="border: 0px; color: #767676; display: inline-block; font-family: canada-type-gibson; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">W. B. Yeats, “Among School Children” from <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A New Edition,</em> edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright 1933 by Macmillan Publishing Company, renewed © 1961 by Georgie Yeats. Reprinted with the permission of A. P. Watt, Ltd. on behalf of Michael Yeats.</span></div><div class="o-vr o-vr_2x" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c-txt c-txt_note c-txt_note_mini" style="border: 0px; color: #767676; display: inline-block; font-family: canada-type-gibson; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats</em> (1989)</span></div><div class="o-vr o-vr_2x" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c-txt c-txt_note c-txt_note_mini" style="border: 0px; color: #767676; display: inline-block; font-family: canada-type-gibson; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>See <a href="https://genius.com/William-butler-yeats-among-school-children-annotated" target="_blank">annotations on genius.com</a></div><div class="o-grid-col o-grid-col_10of12" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 638.359px;"><br /></div><div class="o-grid-col o-grid-col_10of12" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 638.359px;"><br /><div class="o-vr o-vr_2x" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c-txt c-txt_note c-txt_note_mini" style="border: 0px; color: #767676; display: inline-block; font-family: canada-type-gibson; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div>Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-36116215392651148402021-10-10T10:11:00.000-07:002021-10-10T10:11:24.709-07:00Shame: How does it affect writing?<p> Read this excellent <a href="https://universityschool.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wc/how-to-reduce-writing-shame/?utm_source=vt-wod-study-wod&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SAT%2FHigh+School+Word+Of+The+Day" target="_blank">article</a>:</p><h2 class="webfont sectionname" style="color: #a9bd27; display: inline; font-family: din-medium, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 5px 3px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: nowrap;">WORD COUNT</h2><p><a href="https://universityschool.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wc/" style="color: #22558a; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.52px; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></p><h3 class="webfont sectiondesc" style="color: #8f8f8f; display: inline; font-family: din-regular, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 13px; margin: 1.5em 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px 3px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: nowrap;">WRITERS TALK ABOUT WRITING</h3><div class="header" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.52px;"><h1 class="headline" style="clear: none; color: #22558a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 4px 0px;">How to Reduce Writing Shame</h1><div class="dateline" style="color: #8f8f8f; font-size: 11px; margin: 5px 0px;">September 23, 2021</div><a class="byline" href="https://universityschool.visualthesaurus.com/cm/contributors/3" style="color: #8f8f8f; font-size: 11px; margin: 5px 0px;">By Daphne Gray-Grant</a></div><div class="body" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.28px; margin-top: 1em;"><p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.52px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px;">Are you <em>proud</em> of your ability to write? Or do you secretly feel embarrassed, worried or even ashamed about it?</p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.52px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px;">I ask these questions because shame is something that sets you up for repeated failure and self-disappointment. It's <em>undermining</em> rather than helpful. </p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.52px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px;">Read the rest of the <a href="https://universityschool.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wc/how-to-reduce-writing-shame/?utm_source=vt-wod-study-wod&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SAT%2FHigh+School+Word+Of+The+Day" target="_blank">article here</a>. </p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.52px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px;">Reminded me of the work of Brené Brown and a previous post...</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.52px;"><a href="http://obrienk.blogspot.com/2020/06/no-shame-step-inside-circle.html" target="_blank">No Shame - Step Inside the Circle</a></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.52px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.52px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p></div>Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-76267671406210125552020-12-15T16:25:00.004-08:002020-12-15T16:31:50.179-08:00Podcasts for Climate Change<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> 1. <a href="https://www.kellycorrigan.com/podcast" target="_blank">Kelly Corrigan Wonders</a></b></span></p><iframe frameborder="0" height="200" scrolling="no" src="https://play.prx.org/e?uf=https:%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FKellyCorriganWonders&ge=prx_338_33d5e633-33a3-4119-b1b9-00d352ef9287" width="100%"></iframe> <div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">2. TED Radio Hour <a href="https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/860077984/climate-mindset?showDate=2020-10-09" target="_blank">Climate Mindset</a></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><iframe frameborder="0" height="290" scrolling="no" src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/860079554/860751318" title="NPR embedded audio player" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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<iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/860144962/860752330" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"></iframe>Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-58498638647830978142020-12-04T09:50:00.001-08:002020-12-04T10:21:39.371-08:00Motivation: Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose and Hacking Zoom School <p> </p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y1SDV8nxypE" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">From YouTube - posted June 24, 2015:</span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The full, non-animated RSA talk can be found at: </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mG-hhWL_ug" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: var(--yt-endpoint-display, inline-block); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration, none); white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mG-h...</a></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>12.4.2020 Friday</div><div><br /></div><div>Journal TGIF: What are you grateful for this week? </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>What did you learn independently this week? </div><div>What article or YouTube video or podcast did you find interesting? </div><div>Please share a specific link - share with your classmates in the chat.</div><div>What are you intellectually curious to learn more about? </div><div><br /></div><div>After watching the EdPuzzle video on Hacking Education, how might that shift the paradigm of learning and teaching for you? </div><div><br /></div><div>What is your mindset towards learning? Are you hacking your education? </div><div><br /></div><div>What is your motivation? Do you have a sense of autonomy - choice? </div><div><br /></div><div>Do you have a sense of purpose for learning? </div><div><br /></div><div>How are you striving for mastery?</div><div><br /></div><div>How might we collaborate and share our learning in this global pandemic that's forcing us to rethink and reimagine school with technology? </div><div><br /></div><div>I believe you have stories to share. I believe you are creative. I believe you have an opportunity to learn and rediscover the joy of learning and sharing your intellectual curiosity? </div><div><br /></div><div>So, what is your story?</div><div><br /></div><div>I sense that so many have been checkout of traditional school for many years. </div><div><br /></div><div>I forget who said it first, and I have heard it many times: "I hate school, but I love learning."</div><div><br /></div><div>I agree. </div><div><br /></div><div>School to me has become almost a sad and tragic chore - a manipulation of grades and scores to punish some and reward others that can jump through the hoops. </div><div><br /></div><div>In a global pandemic, mental health - from isolation to depression - and zoom fatigue are real - and I fear we as teachers have a choice to exacerbating learned helplessness: an attitude of who cares? and why try if I am only going to get _____ (insert grade that will check the box). </div><div><br /></div><div>We are going through an historic time. Unprecedented. These are cliche at this point. </div><div>Said over and over again. And it's cliche to say this - again and again. </div><div><br /></div><div>There's the Covid virus that pushes us deeper into devices and echo chambers and possible misinformation that plagues the world like a virus. </div><div><br /></div><div>We need to understand <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oguBx7O72I" target="_blank">the FB problem</a> and social media impact on our hearts and minds - our society and our time - and our friends and our families. We have never been more connected yet paradoxically disconnected. </div><div><br /></div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uaaC57tcci0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><div>And time is ticking on our environment as we digitally distract ourselves with Netflix next episodes and likes and follows and tweets and streaks and snaps and stories. </div><div><br /></div><div>So, what is your story? </div><div><br /></div><div>Are you too tired to care?</div><div><br /></div><div>Not surprising with sleep deprivation from notifications and blue light devices that decimate our deep sleep with the digital deluge of information. Insomnia wreaks havoc on kids who scroll while anxious for likes while fearing trolls with wicked finsta comments. </div><div><br /></div><div>I wonder... </div><div><br /></div><div>How do we make the most of this time? </div><div><br /></div><div>How do we reimagine what is possible?</div><div><br /></div><div>How might we rediscover our creativity in the midst of the confinement and constraints?</div><div><br /></div><div>How might we be more grateful and share our gratitude? </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-42620504313135868982020-12-03T09:09:00.003-08:002020-12-03T09:09:29.624-08:00Listen to this Conversation: Brené Brown with Dr. Sarah Lewis on The Rise, the Creative Process and the Difference Between Mastery and Success<p> The power of art...</p><p>I have been thinking about this idea a lot this year. </p><p><br /></p><p>How might art save us in this dark year?</p><p>How might art offer a new imagination to representation for social justice? </p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rRjq17Q2XTQ" width="560"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p>How might creativity move us from despair? </p><p>In our solitude, we might feel less alone. Less isolated. If there were greater sense of purpose, we could read whatever we always wanted to read. </p><p>Seeking mastery, we might learn how to learn new hobbies - from cooking to scrapbooking.</p><p>So much to learn and now we have this time this year, but we wish it away to get back to normal. The business of traveling and jetting around the world. Now we zoom. </p><p>Wherever we go there we are. </p><p>How do we chase success? </p><p>How do we fear failure? </p><p>How do we strive for mastery? </p><p>To learn, to grow, to live. I wonder...</p><p>Listen to this:<iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed-podcast/episode/002OXyawiR8K1imFEivJsm" width="100%" height="232" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c2d3f; font-family: Georgia, Times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.42; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c2d3f; font-family: Georgia, Times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.42; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Brené Brown<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">:</span></span> Hi everyone, I’m Brené Brown, and welcome to the <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Dare to Lead</em> Podcast. This is such a great conversation. Grab your journal, grab a pen and a piece of paper, you’re going to want to take notes on this one. It is somewhere between a full-on, geek out kind of nerdriffic conversation and just wholeheartedness. And for me, personally, moving conversation with Dr. Sarah Lewis. So it’s a two-part series. This is Part One. We talk about her book, <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery</em>. And Sarah and I talk about why the word failure doesn’t quite capture the often transformative experience of falling and beginning again. We also talk about the difference between success and mastery. And for me, this is so important because mastery is very important to me and not something we talk about enough. And we also talk about the power of setting audacious goals that are right outside our grasp. I cannot wait to bring you this conversation. I think you are going to love it. Dr. Sarah Lewis, it’s moving, it’s a moving conversation.</p><div><br /></div>Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-51823538489767046792020-08-13T17:41:00.001-07:002020-08-13T17:41:36.508-07:00Michael Gazzaniga: Early Split-Brain Research<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8cOBt5fxS3Y" width="560"></iframe> <div>From late 1950s Michael Gazzaniga</div><div><br /><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZMLzP1VCANo" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><b><i>2012 Nature </i>article by <a class="fn" data-popup-width="estimate" href="https://www.nature.com/news/the-split-brain-a-tale-of-two-halves-1.10213#auth-1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14.495px; text-decoration-line: none;">David Wolman</a>: </b></div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><h1 class="article-heading" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 28.5551px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.173; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/news/the-split-brain-a-tale-of-two-halves-1.10213" target="_blank">The split brain: A tale of two halves</a></h1></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="standfirst" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14.495px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone.</p></div></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p></div></div>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3k6P5JiNzrk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-87873834322038158572020-07-03T08:04:00.000-07:002020-07-03T08:11:35.262-07:00TGIF Home Again: Learning and Listening from Vincent Harding to Jason Reynolds - Both Citing James Baldwin<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: super, serif; font-size: calc(17px + (5 * (100vw - 100px)) / 1900); line-height: 1.65; margin-bottom: 2.5vw;">
This morning I started listening to recent podcast <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/vincent-harding-is-america-possible/" target="_blank">On Being with Krista Tippet interview with Vincent Harding</a> (previously aired and recorded <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "america" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">February 24, 2011</span>).<br />
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<span style="font-size: 20.5263px;">"Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of the ’50s and ’60s was spiritually as well as politically vigorous; it aspired to a “beloved community,” not merely a tolerant integrated society. He pursued this through patient-yet-passionate cross-cultural, cross-generational relationships. And he posed and lived a question that is freshly in our midst: <b>Is America possible?"</b></span><br />
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So you’re right about — the story — just as you were speaking, what I was thinking about, Krista, was when the mother with the baby at her bosom starts telling stories is clearly not just to pass on information. What I find is that, even in some of the strangest situations, most often where I go, where I speak, where I share, I start out by asking people to tell a little of their stories. And it is amazing what people discover of themselves, of their connections, of their community. It’s wonderful.</div>
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"James Baldwin, my famous Baldwin quote, and he has a gazillion, obviously. But my favorite Baldwin quote is, <b>“The interior life is the real life.”</b> The interior life is the real life. <b>“And the intangible dreams of a person may have a tangible effect on the world.”</b> It’s basically saying, what one can imagine, internally, what one can think about when nobody knows, when nobody’s around, one’s secrets, could shift human life. What an amazing thing to think about.</div>
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"Mavis Nicholson speaks exclusively to American Civil rights activist and renowned Playwright novelist, essayist, poet, and social critic James Baldwin. First shown: 02/12/1987"<br />
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-28745735774353540192020-06-17T14:39:00.000-07:002020-06-17T14:39:52.031-07:00No Shame - Step Inside the Circle <iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/398088783" width="640"></iframe>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/398088783">Step Inside the Circle</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user19735730">Fritzi Horstman</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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The connection between trauma and shame and poverty and mass incarceration cannot be denied.<br />
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I was reminded of Brene Brown's "Listening to Shame" TED Talk (<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame/transcript?language=en" target="_blank">transcript</a>).<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">In a powerful talk, educator Eldra Jackson III shares how he unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity through Inside Circle, an organization that leads group therapy for incarcerated men. Now he's helping others heal by creating a new image of what it means to be a whole, healthy man. "The challenge is to eradicate this cycle of emotional illiteracy and groupthink," he says.</span><br />
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-63509427078833627562020-04-20T12:17:00.002-07:002020-04-20T12:17:25.531-07:00Who in America has the Privilege to Protest?<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
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I’m imagining what would be happening if it were Black people across the nation defying stay-at-home orders and demonstrating in large groups against the law. <br /><br />Riot units would be breaking up rallies. Tear gas would be flying. Jails would be filling up. Trump would be raging.</div>
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1251965901668331525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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"Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others."<br />
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Cover reveal of my next book! Get the story behind the cover design, title, and a bit about my writing process, plus a short excerpt, at: <a href="https://t.co/ityjILo975">https://t.co/ityjILo975</a> Pre-orders: <a href="https://t.co/A58kk8rk6v">https://t.co/A58kk8rk6v</a> or <a href="https://t.co/4Ci62f6EXp">https://t.co/4Ci62f6EXp</a> <a href="https://t.co/5xVf5pqIMX">pic.twitter.com/5xVf5pqIMX</a></div>
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-61484482689017148302019-11-20T12:22:00.000-08:002019-11-20T12:26:12.311-08:00Empowering Students to be Anti-Racists - And the "Perils of Indifference"<ul class="video-transcript" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(214, 223, 232); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">White nationalists have long believed that Jewish “outside agitators” are behind every left-leaning protest and political cause. Indeed, in his article “<a href="https://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism" target="_blank">Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism,” scholar-activist Eric K. Ward</a> explains that anti-Semitism is a core component of white nationalism. Rather than understanding that fights for racial and economic justice represent the interests and ambitions of groups that are left out by a dominant culture that is white and Christian, white nationalists hold that Jews are “manipulating the social order behind the scenes,” Ward notes. </span>Two examples are particularly illustrative: Last October, a flier was posted at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, stating: “Every time some anti-white anti-American, anti-freedom event takes place, you look at it, and it’s Jews behind it.” Depicted on the flier were several Jewish public figures, including Soros, with Jewish stars superimposed upon their foreheads. Former Gov. Paul LePage was making the same point when he recently claimed that the Democratic Party is funded “for the most part” by Jewish people.</div>
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Well, Lindsay, this is where you come in.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">There does seem to be, by all accounts,</span><b> a rise in white supremacist speech</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">. How is it that you came to deal with that, and how did you — what did you come up with?</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">We also know that </span><b>white nationalist and alt-right movements are intentionally recruiting young people.</b></div>
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The editor of a neo-Nazi Web site has written that he designs his Web site to recruit children as young as 11 years old. We're talking about young people who are — who don't yet have fully formed views and opinions about the world. And that's a big reason why white nationalists and alt-right groups are working to recruit them.</div>
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So you have come up with this kit, a kit that you have used in your classes. What does this kit do?</div>
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So, this <a href="https://www.westernstatescenter.org/schools" target="_blank">toolkit provides some context and some guidance around the issue of white nationalist and alt-right recruitment of young people</a>. And it also provides a number of scenarios, possible things that might happen in a school community.</div>
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It also contains definitions and a road map to <a href="https://www.adl.org/hate-symbols" target="_blank">alt-right symbols</a> to help teachers, administrators and community members strip the secrecy from <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764728163/the-ok-hand-gesture-is-now-listed-as-a-symbol-of-hate" target="_blank">white nationalism</a>.</div>
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So how have you used the toolkit?</div>
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So, I like using the toolkit in my classrooms with my lesson plans, whether it be talking about definitions or scenarios.</div>
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The toolkit has been useful in, heck, conversations in the hallways with students as they're coming up to me to talk about, hey, Mr. Griffin, what do you think about this or that meme or whatnot, whatever's current in their life.</div>
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We're also using the toolkit to create advisory lesson plans that the entire school body, student body will be using.</div>
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One thing the toolkit tries to do is empower students that they do have a voice. But it's not their responsibility to take this on. There are adults in the community, and it's our job to take this on.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">And do your students, the students that you're talking with, do they understand? Especially those who are embracing these </span><b><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/19/day-trope-white-nationalist-memes-thrive-reddits-rthedonald" target="_blank">white nationalist tropes</a></b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, how do you deal with them and prevent them from moving into the direction of violence?</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">If a kid is going through that, then you have </span><b>got to make them feel known, valued, loved, part of the community</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, because so much of this is this </span><b>isolationism</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> that they're experiencing, while also educating some of their ignorance about the greater context of it.</span></div>
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How — reaching the students in your classroom doesn't address what they're getting at home, so how do you deal with that?</div>
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For people who are already deeply involved in white nationalism, this toolkit is not for them.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">But it also, we hope, will </span><b>help create communities that are openly talking about issues of white nationalism, white supremacy, racial justice, and reinforcing values</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> that include everyone.</span></div>
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To both of you, how hopeful are you that the kind of extremism that this toolkit is trying to address can be contained or even defeated? Are you hopeful at all, or is it just moving too fast?</div>
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I have a lot of reasons to not be hopeful, I guess. That said, I have a lot of reasons to be hopeful too.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: inherit;">And it is that these </span><b>kids are willing to engage in these conversations in a nuanced manner </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">that I don't think some previous generations have been as willing to engage in. And so, if you just keep doing it, eventually, you get an entire new generation in charge, and I suppose there's a lot of hope there.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="background-color: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.5); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">"For the next eight years,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">I believed the lies that I had been fed.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">And though I saw no evidence of it whatsoever,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">I didn't hesitate to blame every Jewish person in the world</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; 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transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">I blamed people of color</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">for the crime and violence and the drugs in the city,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">completely neglecting the fact that I was committing acts of violence</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; 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letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">it was white supremacists who were funneling drugs</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">into the inner cities.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">And I blamed immigrants</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">for taking jobs from white Americans,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">completely neglecting the fact that my parents were hardworking immigrants</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; 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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="background-color: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.5); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">And the way I do that is not by arguing with them,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">not by debating them,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">not by even telling them they're wrong,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">even though, boy, I want to sometimes.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">I don't do that.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">Instead, I don't push them away.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">I draw them in closer,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">more able to have skills to compete in the marketplace</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">so that they don't have to blame the other,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">the other that they've never met.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">I'd like to just leave you with one last thing before I go.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">Of all the people I've worked with, they will all tell you the same thing.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">One, <b>they became extremists</b></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0"><b>because they wanted to belong, </b>not because of ideology or dogma.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; 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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">His book: </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316522902/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0" style="font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: normal;" target="_blank"><i>White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement--and How I Got Out</i></a></div>
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-62016666787512789662019-11-20T11:34:00.002-08:002019-11-20T11:34:32.560-08:00Elie Wiesel on "The Perils of Indifference"<iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JpXmRiGst4k" width="560"></iframe><br />
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"In a way, to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman.
Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be
creative. One writes a great poem, a great song. One does something special for the sake
of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is
never creative. You may even at times respond to hatred. You fight it. You publicly criticize
it. You disarm it.<br />
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Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a
beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy. It
benefits the aggressor. It never benefits his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she
feels forgotten. Think of the political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless
refugees. Not to respond to their terrible condition, not to relieve their loneliness by
offering them a spark of hope is to send them away from human memory. And in not
seeing them as humans, we become less human, too.<br />
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Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment.<br />
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And this is one of the most important lessons of this ending century's wide-ranging
experiments in good and evil.<br />
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In the place that I come from, society was composed of three simple groups. There were
the killers, the victims, and the bystanders. During the darkest of times, inside the ghettoes
and death camps, we felt abandoned, forgotten. All of us did."<br />
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Elie Wiesel held his Acceptance Speech on 10 December 1986, in the Oslo City Hall, Norway.</div>
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First<b> they came</b> for the socialists, and I did not speak out—</div>
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Because I was not a socialist.</div>
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Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—</div>
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Because I was not a trade unionist.</div>
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Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—</div>
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Because I was not a Jew.</div>
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Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.<br />
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-16504333386786847602019-11-19T10:56:00.001-08:002019-11-19T11:13:41.553-08:00Cal Newport on Deep Work and Digital MinimalismLately, I have been obsessed with the wisdom of <a href="https://www.calnewport.com/" target="_blank">Cal Newport</a>.<br />
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<span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3 !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735211299/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0" target="_blank">Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones</a> by James Clear</span></h1>
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<span class="a-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3 !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">I have revisited Cal Newport's books, especially <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X47ZVXM/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0" target="_blank">DEEP WORK</a>:</i></span><i> Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World</i><i>. </i><br />
<span class="a-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3 !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Here's a <a href="https://www.asem.org/resources/Website/Outreach/ASEM_Blog/ASEM_Book_Review-Deep_Work-TJK.pdf" target="_blank">brief summary</a>.</span></div>
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Cal Newport first came onto my radar via his <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/cal_newport_why_you_should_quit_social_media/transcript?language=en" target="_blank">TED Talk</a>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">You probably don't realize</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">that right now, you're actually looking at something quite rare.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Because I am a millennial computer scientist book author</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">standing on a TEDx stage,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">and yet, I've never had a social media account.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">How this happened was actually somewhat random.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Social media first came onto my radar when I was at college,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">my sophomore year of college,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">this is when Facebook arrived at our campus.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">And at the time, which was right after the first dotcom bust,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">I had had a dorm room business, I'd had to shut it down in the bust,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">and then, suddenly, this other kid from Harvard, named Mark,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">had this product called Facebook and people being excited about it.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">So in sort of a fit of somewhat immature professional jealousy,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">I said, "I'm not going to use this thing.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">I won't help this kid's business; whatever's going to amount to."</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">As I go along my life, I look up not long later,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">and I see everyone I know is hooked on this thing.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">And from the clarity you can get</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">when you have some objectivity, some perspective on it,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">I realized this seems a little bit dangerous.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">So I never signed up.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">I've never had a social media account since.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">So I'm here for two reasons; I want to deliver two messages.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">The first message I want to deliver</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">is that even though I've never had a social media account,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">I'm OK, you don't have to worry.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">It turns out I still have friends,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">I still know what's going on in the world;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">as a computer scientist</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">I still collaborate with people all around the world,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">I'm still regularly exposed serendipitously to interesting ideas,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">and I rarely describe myself as lacking entertainment options.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">So I've been OK, but I'd go even farther and say</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s;">not only</span><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0"> <b>I am OK without social media but I think I'm actually better off.</b></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b> </b></span></span><b><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">I think I'm happier, I think I find more sustainability in my life,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">and I think I've been more successful professionally</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">because I don't use social media.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">So my second goal here on stage</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="background-color: rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.5); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">is try to convince more of you to believe the same thing.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">Let's see if I could actually convince more of you</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "inter" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><a class="t-d:n hover/bg:gray-l.5" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" tabindex="0">that you too would be better off if you quit social media.</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></b><br />
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Then, I bought his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X47ZVXM/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0" target="_blank"><i>DEEP WORK</i> </a>(that I gifted to a colleague as I moved before I read all of it).<br />
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However, I also bought his books:<br />
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In my travels and interstitial time, I have listened to more than a couple podcasts with Cal Newport as a guest...<br />
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It’s become increasingly harder to just put the phone down. Because the latest apps and digital platforms are specifically designed to addict, we have become slaves to their irresistible allure.</div>
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Our precious attention is being hijacked. The ability to focus — to concentrate on that which is most meaningful — simply cannot compete with the magnetic pull of our Instagram feed. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; overflow-wrap: break-word;">No longer need anyone ever be bored. Alone with one’s thoughts. Or simply present with one’s self. </span></span></div>
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The result is a global epidemic of distraction. A fomenting of loneliness and isolation. And a degradation of our humanity.</div>
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The solution isn’t Ludditism. Instead it’s agency. We need not be victims of technology. We have the power to liberate ourselves from the tether of digital dependency. And the freedom it creates isn’t just the salve to what ails us, it’s the gateway to that which we seek most. Meaning. True human connection. And a reconnection with our innate humanity.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Indeed, there is no substitute for real relationships. Boredom is useful. And focus is the new superpower.</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Cal Newport</span> is someone who has spent a lot of time thinking deeply about these issues.</div>
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I was asked recently to name a book that changed my life. The book I chose was Cal Newport’s “Deep Work,” and for the most literal of reasons: it’s changed how I lived my life. Particularly, it’s led me to stop scheduling morning meetings, and to preserve that time for more sustained, creative work.Which is all to say that I’m a bit obsessed with Newport’s work right now, and especially his account of how the digital environment we inhabit is training us out of concentration and into distraction in ways that are bad for us, bad for our work, and ultimately bad for the world. Most of the conversations on this podcast are how to think about things differently. This one is too, but it’s more importantly about how to do things differently, and why you should do them differently. We discuss..."</div>
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It's hard to deny our society's increasing dependence on, if not addiction to, email, apps and social media. If we recognize it as a problem, then how do we fix it? Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University and the author of the New York Times bestseller: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Newport writes about our growing dependency on technology and its negative consequences. From deleting apps on your phone to spending time alone with your thoughts, Newport provides valuable steps to break away from our increasing digital dependency.</div>
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-4249766109283883922019-11-06T08:03:00.001-08:002019-11-06T08:19:08.620-08:00Wise Words from One of My Mentors from One of his Mentors: "You Teach Them" Fall trimester of my junior year in high school, I earned a 4 on 6 scale in Mr. Henningsen's American History course. Hoping for a 4.5 or even a 5, I was devastated since my GPA was subpar - once again.<br />
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During my sophomore, I had dug myself a tremendous hole. Frankly, I was fortunate to return to Andover for my junior year after being on academic probation the previous year. Struggling with grief after the loss of my grandfather in December, plus frustrating athletic injuries in soccer and winter track while also breaking my hand in the spring after achieving my goal of making varsity lacrosse, I battled with depression most of my sophomore year. At the end of the spring trimester, I buckled down after realizing how perilous my place at Phillps Academy was - failing most of my classes that midterm. With fear of expulsion, I studied, performing well on all my exams, especially French.<br />
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So, in the fall of my junior year, I returned - determined to excel. After dinner, while many socialized until study hours, my best friend and I would eat quickly and return to the quiet second floor of the library immediately. I knew I had to develop my reading comprehension with note-taking skills, especially for Henningsen's history. Never before did I have so much reading to cover - every single night. With a feeling that I would never know what he may ask in class, I read and wrote notes and reread the notes, but I came up short on test after test. I spent hours on essays, yet they never translated to the grades I had hoped. With time and effort, I learned from my mistakes; however, I earned a 4 in the fall and again another 4 in the winter. I admit that I cried my eyes out to my mother that I will never get into college.<br />
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Nevertheless, I admired Mr. Henningsen and sought his approval and respect, so I continued to work. I often wondered if I was smart enough - and certainly felt not good enough in a classroom and school of hard-working, talented over-achievers.<br />
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In the spring, after an arduous year and final exam, I earned my 5 - finally. Truth be told it was one of the few 5s on my transcript. But more importantly, I was proud of his kind words on my year end comment. Mr. Henningsen acknowledged my perseverance and improvement over the course of the year.<br />
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The fall of my senior year, Mr. Henningsen wrote one of my college recommendations. I have no doubt that I would not have been accepted early to the University of Pennsylvania without his letter of recommendation.<br />
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And more importantly, perhaps, I would not appreciate reading and writing in the way I do now. I know that I would not be a teacher without his example. When I am sick and tired and frustrated at times as a teacher, I remember his patience and support.<br />
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Watching these videos brings me back to his classroom, and I "teach them" like he taught me.<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/26778101">New York Campaign Celebration: Vic Henningsen '69, P'01, '05</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/phillipsacademy">Phillips Academy</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/41353310">Perspectives on Leadership</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/phillipsacademy">Phillips Academy</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2e3b; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;">"Hundreds of alumni returned to campus April 27 to honor Barbara Chase, including trustee president emeritus David Underwood ’54 and his successor Oscar Tang ’56. Making the most of this reunion and tapping the collective wisdom of the three leaders, the Academy hosted a panel discussion, “Perspectives in Leadership.” Faculty, staff, alumni, and parents filled Tang Theatre Friday evening for a Q&A session moderated by Vic Henningsen ’69, instructor in history and social science."</span>Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-21739814495209016132019-10-24T06:52:00.000-07:002019-10-24T06:52:33.119-07:00Content Consumption: Garbage In, Garbage OutToday I asked students a few questions...<br />
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5. What are you reading?<br />
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6. What worries you? What problem would you like to solve in the world?<br />
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I played a clip on the reading habits of Bill Gates<br />
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When I think of Bill Gates, I think of my dad who started his career in computers at Honeywell - owned a couple manufacturing companies and a bottle water company - and ended his career with computers and information systems in Cuyahoga County. He once said, "I wonder if I just stuck with computers, I could have been like Bill Gates."<br />
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As a programmer and father, he would often say, "Garbage in, garbage out." </blockquote>
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If we were watching bad television, he would be upset with us for wasting our time and not learning. He was always reading a book, the newspapers, and watched the nightly news plus <i>60 Minutes</i> every Sunday evening.<br />
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Remember we are creatures of habit. How are you developing a reading habit?<br />
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How does reading help you develop your "<a href="https://www.chsvt.org/wdp/Habits_of_Mind.pdf" target="_blank">Habits of Mind</a>"?<br />
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<br />Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-84846087109566493832019-09-19T07:37:00.004-07:002019-09-19T07:37:46.685-07:00TED Talk Spoiler: Checklist Manifesto<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><br /></span>
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Just using <b>a checklist requires you to embrace different values</b> from the ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork. This is the opposite of what we were built on: independence, self-sufficiency, autonomy.<br />
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I met an actual cowboy, by the way. I asked him, what was it like to actually herd a thousand cattle across hundreds of miles? How did you do that? And he said, "We have the cowboys stationed at distinct places all around." They communicate electronically constantly, and <b>they have protocols and checklists for how they handle everything</b> -- (Laughter) -- from bad weather to emergencies or inoculations for the cattle. Even the cowboys are pit crews now. And it seemed like time that we become that way ourselves.<br />
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<b>Making systems work is the great task of my generation</b> of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work, whether in health care, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty, is the great task of our generation as a whole. <b>In every field, knowledge has exploded</b>, but it has brought complexity, it has brought specialization. And we've come to a place where we have no choice but to <b>recognize, as individualistic as we want to be, complexity requires group success.</b> We all need to be pit crews now. </blockquote>
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-38622061749162148492019-09-18T12:12:00.001-07:002019-09-18T12:13:49.622-07:00David Foster Wallace on a "Real Education" and our "Default Setting"<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eC7xzavzEKY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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In his <a href="https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/" target="_blank">2005 Commencement Address at Kenyon College</a>, you may recall that David Foster Wallace spoke about our "default setting" as a metaphor for our "unconscious" thinking - and our real education is to be aware.<br />
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With humility, he introduces this "default setting" as self-centeredness that is natural and understandable in this paragraph:<br />
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Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute centre of the universe; the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centredness because it’s so socially repulsive. But it’s pretty much the same for all of us. <b>It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth.</b> Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute centre of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. And so on. Other people’s thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real.<br />
When a baby cries, the baby is fed or changed - the baby learns how to receive attention - and gets what it wants - training parents to provide comfort, food, or a clean diaper.</blockquote>
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Wallace concludes - that not much may change for many people - you can survive and be relatively successful, especially in our American culture today.<br />
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And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving…. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.</blockquote>
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That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the <b>default setting</b>, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.</blockquote>
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-68623933773095158312019-09-18T09:01:00.001-07:002019-09-18T12:18:00.234-07:00Challenge Your Default - Professor Adam GrantYou may remember <a href="https://obrienk.blogspot.com/2019/09/david-foster-wallace-on-real-education.html" target="_blank">David Foster Wallace talking about "default settings"</a> as unconscious living - oblivious to freedom of choice and how to think.<br />
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Here's a TED Talk by Adam Grant - Professor at Penn's Wharton Business School that explains how our <b>default browser</b> may indicate more than we may realize.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers?referrer=playlist-talks_to_help_you_get_through_the_work_week&language=en" target="_blank">From TED 2016:</a></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.4px;">How do creative people come up with great ideas? <a href="https://www.ted.com/speakers/adam_grant?language=en&referrer=playlist-talks_to_help_you_get_through_the_work_week" target="_blank">Organizational psychologist Adam Grant</a> studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals -- including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."</span><br />
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Now, in my research, I discovered there are two different kinds of doubt. There's self-doubt and idea doubt. Self-doubt is paralyzing. It leads you to freeze. But idea doubt is energizing. It motivates you to test, to experiment, to refine, just like MLK did. And so the key to being original is just a simple thing of avoiding the leap from step three to step four. Instead of saying, "I'm crap," you say, "The first few drafts are always crap, and I'm just not there yet." So how do you get there? Well, there's a clue, it turns out, in the Internet browser that you use. We can predict your job performance and your commitment just by knowing what web browser you use. Now, some of you are not going to like the results of this study -- <br />
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But there is good evidence that Firefox and Chrome users significantly outperform Internet Explorer and Safari users. Yes.<br />
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They also stay in their jobs 15 percent longer, by the way. Why? It's not a technical advantage. The four browser groups on average have similar typing speed and they also have similar levels of computer knowledge. It's about how you got the browser. Because if you use Internet Explorer or Safari, those came preinstalled on your computer, and you accepted the default option that was handed to you. If you wanted Firefox or Chrome, you had to doubt the default and ask, is there a different option out there, and then be a little resourceful and download a new browser. So people hear about this study and they're like, "Great, if I want to get better at my job, I just need to upgrade my browser?"<br />
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No, it's about being the kind of person who takes the initiative to doubt the default and look for a better option. And if you do that well, you will open yourself up to the opposite of déjà vu. There's a name for it. It's called vuja de.<br />
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-45158363635229330712019-09-10T07:42:00.002-07:002019-09-10T07:42:28.499-07:00Art and Icarus<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337069" target="_blank">Henri Matisse's Icarus</a><br />
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Plate VIII from the illustrated book, "Jazz",1947 French
This bold and playful image is one of twenty plates Matisse created to illustrate his groundbreaking book "Jazz." The illustrations derive from maquettes of cut and pasted colored papers, which were then printed using a stencil technique known as "pochoir."<br />
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Here, the mythological figure Icarus is presented in a simplified form floating against a royal blue nighttime sky. Matisse's flat, abstracted forms and large areas of pure color marked an important change in the direction of his later work and ultimately influenced "hard-edge" artists of the 1960s like Ellsworth Kelly and Al Held<br />
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I mentioned the work of <a href="https://www.tristanharris.com/" target="_blank">Tristan Harris</a>.<br />
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I recommended having a dedicated place to read without digital distractions.<br />
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They know how to check your phone apps - so be warned.<br />
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But be mindful of how you wish to invest your time this year - and more importantly your life.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-James-Kerr/dp/147210353X/ref=asc_df_147210353X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312006100296&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12217921822344748282&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9015253&hvtargid=pla-452571162662&psc=1" target="_blank">Legacy:</a>
<a href="https://www.airman.af.mil/Portals/17/002%20All%20Products/001%20Book%20Reviews/Book%20Reviews/Legacy_(Kerr)_Book_Review.pdf?ver=2015-10-07-100339-923" target="_blank">15 Lessons in Leadership</a>; What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business
of Life </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by James Kerr<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-58543987554740828552019-04-04T10:27:00.000-07:002019-04-04T10:27:31.616-07:00The Power of Language - and Racial Dog-WhistlesFrom Wikipedia:<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics" target="_blank">Dog-whistle politics</a></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 1981, former </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> strategist </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lee Atwater">Lee Atwater</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, when giving an anonymous interview discussing Nixon's </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Strategy" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Southern Strategy">Southern Strategy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, said:</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-twopartysouth_28-0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#cite_note-twopartysouth-28" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[28]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTHerbert_29-0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#cite_note-NYTHerbert-29" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[29]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#cite_note-30" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[30]</a></sup><br />
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During the 2016 presidential election campaign and during his presidency, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> was accused of using racial "dog whistling" techniques.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#cite_note-47" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[47]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#cite_note-48" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[48]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#cite_note-49" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[49]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-50" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#cite_note-50" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-51" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#cite_note-51" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[51]</a></sup></div>
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Mr. Kevin J. O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822444754777456215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494549505457124509.post-43632481001807227562019-03-12T12:24:00.001-07:002019-03-12T12:30:50.891-07:00"Fail Forward" - Denzel<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">
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The point is, every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed.<br />But do you have guts to fail?<br />Here’s my second point about failure:<br />If you don’t fail… you’re not even trying.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Denzel Washington, internationally renowned actor and director, delivered the address at the University of Pennsylvania's 255th Commencement on Monday, May 16. Washington is one of the nation's preeminent performing artists, having achieved wide acclaim for his film, theatrical and television performances, as well as his accomplishments in film directing and television production. Washington has received the most distinguished accolades of his art, including two Academy Awards and a Tony Award. At Commencement, Washington received an honorary doctor of arts degree.</span><br />
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