The Complete Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

The Complete Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

This is the complete archive of the Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier. The Random Thoughts are arranged in chronological order, the most recent appearing at the top of this page. All of the writings appear here exactly as they did when Louis posted them on the Internet (conversion to html by Mark Ahlness). This archive was established with the consent and cooperation of Louis Schmier.

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Random Thoughts from 2007

What Call I Wish Graduates Would Hear - July 22, 2007
Why Am I A Teacher - July 14, 2007
"I Don't Have The Time" - June 27, 2007
A Quickie On When Small Is Large, II - June 22, 2007
A Quickie On When Small Is Large - June 19, 2007
A Quickie On Those First Year Students, IV - May 6, 2007
A Quickie On Those First Year Students, III - May 5, 2007
A Quickie On Those First Year Students, II - May 3, 2007
A Quickie on Those First Year Students, I - May 2, 2007
A Quickie on Real Teaching - April 30, 2007
A Quickie On "53!!!" - April 25, 2007
Ode To Trish - April 21, 2007
A Quickie On Listening - April 19, 2007
A Quickie On Loving - April 15, 2007
Another Quickie On Caring- April 10, 2007
A Quickie On The Curse of Certainty - April 6, 2007
A Quickie On Not Seeing A Student - April 1, 2007
A Quickie On What Teaching Is All About - March 28, 2007
A Quickie On "Don't Belongs" - March 24, 2007
A Quickie on Caring - March 20, 2007
A Quickie - March 17, 2007
The Teaching Power of Love - March 12, 2007
A 'Cancer Friend' - March 5, 2007
Lily Conference on Teaching and Reflection - February 21, 2007
Spirituality in Teaching - February 14, 2007
I'll Tell Him - February 3, 2007
A Snippet of a Conversation in Class - January 24, 2007
A few thoughts. - January 14, 2007
Joyful Time - January 6, 2007

Random Thoughts from 2006

At the Pearly Gates - December 13, 2006
End Of The Semester - December 9, 2006
A Departing Testament - November 30, 2006
Daily Renewal and Resilience Plan - November 22, 2006
An Educational Afterlife - November 9, 2006
Campus Leadership November 2, 2006
Chaos Theory Of Education - October 26, 2006
Basically Care - Ocober 15, 2006
Avodah, Another Word On Happiness - September 28. 2006
A Bit More On Being A Happy Teacher - September 19, 2006
Happy, A Word For My Dictionary Of Good Teaching - September 1, 2006
What It Is About Teaching That Makes Me Happy - August 30, 2006
A Honey-Do-List - August 21, 2006
Scholars and Teachers - August 10, 2006
Being A Tourist In China - July 21, 2006
A One Sentence Assignment - June 13, 2006
Creating A Motivational Classroom, II - June 6, 2006
Creating A Motivational Classroom - May 31, 2006
The Race - May 26, 2006
Being Positive - May 15, 2006
Breathless: Another Word In My Dictionary of Good Teaching - April 25, 2006
Only One Person? - April 5, 2006
Teach Me How To Teach - March 27, 2006
One Blasted Sentence - March 18, 2006
A Chance Meeting - March 3, 2006
Sharing - February 28, 2006
Homo Narrandus - February 24, 2006
Dream: A Word for My Dictionary of Good Teaching - February 16, 2006
It Happened On The Way, II - February 1, 2006
It Happened On The Way.... - January 23, 2006
Here's To Gray! - January 19, 2006
Here's To A Cup of Cheer - January 11, 2006

Random Thoughts from 2005

Heresy - December 23, 2005
Divine Sparks - December 17, 2005
Just Think About It - December 12, 2005
"The Question" - December 5, 2005
A Teacher's Impact - November 9, 2005
Random Thoughts, III is Here - November 7, 2005
Keep the Fires Burning - October 31, 2005
Stop/Start - October 21, 2005
Caleb - October 10, 2005
Grrrrrrrrr! - October 7, 2005
In Memoriam - October 3, 2005
More On Leviticus, Maimonides, & Teaching - September 27, 2005
Cancer, Hospitals, and Teaching - September 25, 2005
Leviticus 25:35 - September 20, 2005
Small: A Word for my Dictionary of Good Teaching - September 15, 2005
Suckered? Nah! - September 4, 2005
What's Your Answer - August 28, 2005
Unreasonable: A Word for my Dictionary of Good Teaching - July 25, 2005
Unreasonableness and Love - July 19, 2005
Cancer, Death, Unreasonableness, and Teaching - July 11, 2005
Let Me Count The Ways - June 24, 2005
Real Life - June 12, 2005
Some Profoundly Simple Questions - June 4, 2005
Grades, Success, and Katie - May 24, 2005
Come Back In A While - May 21, 2005
Everyday Mitzvahs, IV - May 13, 2005
Everyday Mitzvahs, III - May 9, 2005
Everyday Mitzvah, II - May 3, 2005
Everyday Mitzvahs - May 1, 2005
The Hurried and Harried - April 25, 2005
Grade Inflation - April 15, 2005
Ah, Me - April 10, 2005
Empathy Does So Complicate Things - March 23, 2005
More on Empathy - March 16, 2005
Empathy, Another word for My Dictionary of Good Teaching - March 13, 2005
What Really Matters - March 7, 2005
Leave Them Asking, II - February 28, 2005
Leave Them Asking - February 19, 2005
When? - February 3, 2005
What Does It Takes To Be A Teacher: An Interview, III - January 24, 2005
"Spiritualholism" - January 19, 2005
People We All Need - January 11, 2005
Gifts and Appreciations - January 7, 2005

Random Thoughts from 2004

I Am a Cancer Survivor - December 13, 2004
Just Some Thankful Random Thoughts - November 25, 2004
Why Do I Have To Wait? - November 23, 2004
A Failing of Our Higher Education System November 17, 2004
There's Nothing To Teaching - November 12, 2004
Meaning and Purpose of Teaching, II - October 29, 2004
Are Students Really Adults? - October 25, 2004
Meaning and Purpose in Teaching - October 19, 2004
What does it take to be a teacher: An Interview, Part II - October 10, 2004
What does it take to be a teacher: An Interview - October 4, 2004
The Happiness in Teaching - September 30, 2004
More On My Wall - September 23, 2004
My "Wall of Sacred Gifts of Teaching" - September 19, 2004
Reverence, another word for My Dictionary of Good Teaching - August 31, 2004
Faith-Based Education - August 24, 2004
I Know.... - August 15, 2004
What's So Wrong With Love In The Classroom? - August 3, 2004
Galatians 6:9 - July 30, 2004
So, I Ask Myself - July 21, 2004
Hobby: Another Word for my Dictionay of Good Teaching. - July 19, 2004
"I Don't Like Camelias" - July 16, 2004
"Sumus Ergo Sum" - July 9, 2004
Be A Spider - July 5, 2004
Laparoscopy - June 29, 2004
Touch: A Word In My Dictionary of Good Teaching - June 11, 2004
On Lying, Cheating, and Plagarism - June 1, 2004
How Do You Teach? - May 28, 2004
Meditating Before Class - May 20, 2004
What A Humble Day! - May 6, 2004
More on "I'd Like To, But I Don't Have Tenure." - May 3, 2004
"I'd Like To, But I Don't Have Tenure." - April 27, 2004
Where Do You Get Your Energy - April 23, 2004
The Class - April 13, 2004
On Student Evaluations - April 7, 2004
Thorns or Blooms - March 29, 2004
A Lesson From My Garden - March 27, 2004
My Garden, the Classroom, and Spirituality - March 22, 2004
Personal Mission Statements, V - March 14, 2004
Personal Mission Statements, IV - March 10, 2004
Personal Mission Statements, III - March 9, 2004
Personal Mission Statements, II - March 8, 2004
On Personal Mission Statements - March 5, 2004
On Promotion and Tenure - February 29, 2004
Alphabet of Teaching - February 17, 2004
Exodus 24:7 - February 6, 2004
Students and Snowflakes - February 2, 2004
Find Joy and Bring Joy - January 19, 2004
Elisha - January 15, 2004
Patience: An Eleventh Word In My Dictionary of Good Teaching - January 5, 2004

Random Thoughts from 2003

There Is No Try - December 22, 2003
More On The Cost of Grades Is Too High - December 19, 2003
The Cost of Grades Is Too High - December 16, 2003
More on Textbooks--And More - December 15, 2003
Why Don't They Read The Textbook - December 10, 2003
Bedside Manner - November 30, 2003
The "E" In Teaching - November 25, 2003
On Teaching, Part X - November 16, 2003
On Teaching, Part IX - November 8, 2003
On Teaching, Part VIII - November 4, 2003
On Teaching, Part VII - November 2, 2003
On Teaching, Part VI - October 31, 2003
On Teaching, Part V - October 25, 2003
On Teaching, Part IV - October 23, 2003
On Teaching, Part III - October 22, 2003
On Teaching, Part II - October 21, 2003
On Teaching, Part I - October 19, 2003
In Memory - October 16, 2003
Hardwired To Connect - October 4, 2003
Doing Good - September 27, 2003
Life In The Garden And In The Classroom - September 16, 2003
Doing Well and Doing Good
A Gratitude Visit - September 4, 2003
I Was Conned - August 29, 2003
Infrastructure - August 24, 2003
I Want To Talk About Some Colleagues - August 19, 2003
TGITFDOC - August 15, 2003
The Most Important Word In Education - August 10, 2003
Sports In Education - August 6, 2003
A Scary Realization - August 4, 2003
A Cause To Pause - July 25, 2003
Shelf Talkers - July 19, 2003
A Resounding Message - July 16, 2003
Our Natalie And The Good Stuff - July 4, 2003
Affirmative Action, Education, and Society - June 30, 2003
Contagion: Another word for My Dictionary of Good Teaching - June 27, 2003
Questers - June 7, 2003
The Gardener, Artist, and Teacher - May 27, 2003
A Teacher's Biggest Challenge - May 21, 2003
Ten Years of Random Thoughts - May 10, 2003
Last Day - May 6, 2003
Purposeful Advising - May 1, 2003
An Addiction - April 26, 2003
Inner Satisfaction - April 16, 2003
Oh, That Problem Student - April 7, 2003
What's Most Important - April 2, 2003
Marvelous In Our Eyes - March 28, 2003
Religion in Education - March 15, 2003
My Ninth Word In My Dictionary of Good Teaching February 26, 2003
Cogito Ergo Sum - February 22, 2003
Guard My Tongue From Evil - February 15, 2003
Commitment To Teaching - January 29, 2003
Dr. Martin Luther King - January 18, 2003
On Fire or Burnt out - January 16, 2003
Suns and Dots - January 4, 2003

Random Thoughts from 2002

Seeds in Bare Spots - December 16, 2002
No pain, no gain - December 8, 2002
Look At The View - December 3, 2002
When Small Is Large - November 25, 2002
The Best Place To Be - November 21, 2002
Go On A Fast - November 17, 2002
PC and All That - November 10, 2002
Hope Scholarships Offer Hope - November 6, 2002
Deep Teaching - November 1, 2002
A Spider and M.I.T. Students - October 29, 2002
The "I's" Have It - Octover 21, 2002
Put Down Your Pencils - October 15, 2002
Worth It? - October 11, 2002
Remedial Doesn't Mean Unworthy - October 6, 2002
Let's Be Real - September 27, 2002
Before The Burning Bush - September 22, 2002
To Believe Is To See - September 18, 2002
A Question and An Answer - September 4, 2002
It's More Than Just The Subject - August 30, 2002
The Two Fundamental Problems With Grades - August 27, 2002
Opening Night - August 21, 2002
Three Laws of Teaching: Sales, Surroundings, Glue - August 18, 2002
The Exotic Classroom - August 15, 2002
A Vacation It's Not - August 12, 2002
Let Nothing Be Ordinary - August 2, 2002
"Souffe-ish" Teaching - July 31, 2002
Dead Fish - July 19, 2002
It's More Than The Subject - July 7, 2002
This Class On This Day - July 1, 2002
Think "Mosquito!" - June 26, 2002
Say, Do, Feel - June 20, 2002
Three-humped Camels - June 14, 2002
We All Need - June 10, 2002
A Professional Curse - June 3, 2002
My Seventh Word in My Dictionary of Good Teaching - May 29, 2002
One More Lesson From My Garden - May 24, 2002
What Counts - May 19, 2002
And Still Another Lesson From My Garden - May 15, 2002
Another Lesson From My Garden - May 13, 2002
A Lesson From My Garden - May 12, 2002
Weather: My Seventh Word In My Dictionary of Good Teaching - May 8, 2002
Two Winged Teaching and Learning - April 26, 2002
My "Musts" - April 20, 2002
Class Rage - April 15, 2002
My Painted Right Pinky Nail - April 2, 2002
Random Thoughts: Those Pithy Quotes - March 21, 2002
What Is Commitment? - March 10, 2002
A Few Lessons From the Garden - March 7, 2002
It's Supposed To Be Hard - March 2, 2002
My Sixth Word in My Dictionary of Good Teaching - February 24, 2002
On Teaching, I - February 21, 2002
"It's No Secret" - February 9, 2002
Why Aren't You Retired? - February 4, 2002
On Motivation, V - January 30, 2002
On Motivation, IV: "The Chair" - January 29, 2002
On Motivation, III - January 28, 2002
On Motivation, II - January 27, 2002
On Motivation, I - January 26, 2002
On Learning - January 20, 2002
Changing Students - January 19, 2002
Individualism and Surprise - January 7, 2002

Random Thoughts from 2001

A Toast To Teaching For 2002 - December 31, 2001
Kind Teaching - December 25, 2001
That Loveable Cowardly Lion - December 17, 2001
More on That Blessing - December 8, 2001
The Virtue of the One - December 2, 2001
A Core Quality of a Good Teacher - November 24, 2001
Chaos Theory - November 19, 2001
I'm Positive - November 14, 2001
Where Is This Golden Age - November 9, 2001
My Suggestions - October 31, 2001
A Blessing - October 13, 2001
It's Even More So Now Not About Things - September 25, 2001
Life Goes On - September 20, 2001
A Small Flicker of Light In A Dark Day - Sepmenber 12, 2001
It's Not About Things - Sempember 8, 2001
Feedback - September 1, 2001
What's Your Secret Magic? - August 26, 2001
By Chance - August 21, 2001
Acceptance - July 27, 2001
"How Do you Really Think About Teaching" - July 18, 2001
A Truth - July 11, 2001
Teaching is so "Iffy" - June 30, 2001
Compassionate Teaching - June 22, 2001
Journey - June 19, 2001
An Hello and Thank you, II - June 8, 2001
Can't Really Do Both At The Same Time - June 2, 2001
An Hello and Thank you - May 27, 2001
A Sacred Trust - May 23, 2001
Garden Smarts/Teach Smarts - May 11, 2001
The Real Problem In Education - May 7, 2001
Tenure - May 2, 2001
A Real Quick Random Thought: At My Best - April 15, 2001
Isaiah 50:4 - April 12, 2001
Be Aware - April 10, 2001
On Higher Education - April 2, 2001
It's Attitude, Stupid - March 28, 2001
That Miserable, Magnificant Magnolia Tree - March 25, 2001
My Teaching Credo, II - March 22, 2001
My Teaching Credo - March 10, 2001
On This Valentine's Day - February 14, 2001
Rush To Judgement - February 7, 2001
Three Coaches - January 28, 2001
I Am On A High - January 22, 2001
Teach Deliberately - January 17, 2001
"This is a Place.....," II - January 10, 2001

Random Thoughts from 2000

"This Is A Place...." - December 30, 2000
More on Teaching Eloquently - December 12, 2000
Teaching Eloquently - December 11, 2000
Miracles in the Classroom - November 25, 2000
A Letter to the Editor - November 11, 2000
Do You Know How Powerful You Are? - November 1, 2000
Imprisonment, Freedom, Teaching - October 27, 2000
To Dream - October 20, 2000
On Creativity - October 7, 2000
....And I Don't Know How - September 10, 2000
Four Little Big Words: An Update - August 29, 2000
Four Little Big Words - August 27, 2000
My Most Powerful Teaching Tool - August 21, 2000
Ten Stickies - August 3, 2000
TGIF or TGIM - July 25, 2000
A "Small" Challenge To Myself - July 20, 2000
Strangers in the Classroom - June 23, 2000
A Small One with Large Impact - June 11, 2000
Disconnection and Connection - June 2, 2000
Hopeless! Hopeless? - May 17, 2000
The Play - May 12, 2000
Character Does Count - May 3, 2000
A Quickie - April 27, 2000
Teaching Is Tough! - April 22, 2000
What Teaching Really Means - April 13, 2000
To Listen - April 9, 2000
Who Makes a Difference? - March 22, 2000
Dr. Francis Coleman - March 9, 2000
The Arts - March 1, 2000
Two Quick Thoughts - February 7, 2000
Practice, Practice, Practice - January 29, 2000
Unnoticed - January 26, 2000
When Knowledge Is Ignorance January 19, 2000
The Best Thing - January 11, 2000
The "Soft" Skill - January 6, 2000
A Y2K Toast - January 1, 2000

Random Thoughts from 1999

A Christmas Card - December 20, 1999
There Are Guarantees - December 15, 1999
Advice on Teaching - December 9, 1999
Real World - November 23, 1999
Have you Noticed... My Reply - November 8, 1999
Have You Noticed That.... - November 2, 1999
That Magnificant "Dumb" Question - October 29, 1999
Happy Teaching - October 21, 1999
Religion and the Public Schools - October 5, 1999
The Stars - October 3, 1999
That "High Five" Word - September 28, 1999
A Hope Filled Room - September 22, 1999
What Would I Ask - September 18, 1999
A View of Life and Teaching - August 5, 1999
On This Day - July 19, 1999
My Dictionary of Good Teaching: My Reply - July 16, 1999
On This July 4th - July 5, 1999
PLAY: My Fifth Word in My Dictionary For Good Teaching - June 7, 1999
On Being An Educator - May 30, 1999
My Dictionary of Good Teaching--My Long Reply - May 2, 1999
My Fourth Word in My Dictionary of Good Teaching - April 27, 1999
Littleton Tragedy - April 21, 1999
Education Should Be A Bomb - April 12, 1999
An Educational Bumper Sticker - April 4, 1999
Random Thought: DARKNESS: My Third Word For Good Teaching - March 23, 1999
The Second Word in My Dictionary of Teaching - February 16, 1999
The First Word in My Dictionary of Good Teaching - February 13, 1999
A Long Random Thought: Life's Little Pleasures are Never Little - January 23, 1999
In The Moment - January 6, 1999
Jill - January 1, 1999

Random Thoughts from 1998

Now and the Future - December 26, 1998
A Very Long Random Thought: Teaching and Holiness--a response - December 5, 1998
Holiness in Teaching - November 27, 1998
What I Want Students to Say About The Class - November 18, 1998
A Quickie Random Thought: Cans and Can'ts - November 10, 1998
"Leopards can change their spots" - November 2, 1998
Just Some Very Random Thoughts - October 23, 1998
My Commandments For My Teaching - October 12, 1998
Get Them To Read - September 29, 1998
Do Teachers Matter? - September 21, 1998
On This Labor Day - September 8, 1998
"Oh, I Can't Do That!" - August 31, 1998
Two Conversations With Henry - August 18, 1998
I Look At the Garden, and I See the Classoom - June 8, 1998
Just a Thought This Day - May 8, 1998
What To Teach; What to Learn - April 21, 1998
Professorial Doublespeak - April 2, 1998
In the Dark Everything Seems So Simple - March 10, 1998
Two Different Worlds - March 1, 1998
An Unknown Olympian - February 23, 1998
A Valentine Random Thought: Whom Do You Love? - February 12, 1998
Is Today The Day? - February 6, 1998

Random Thoughts from 1997

Resolved, Let's Contribute To Global Warming - December 31, 1997
What Have I Learned This Year? - December 26, 1997
Things - December 21, 1997
Read This And Cry - December 15, 1997
No accommodation with Documentation - December 14, 1997
What Do John Madden and Mike Ditka Know? - November 26, 1997
What Is Real Learning - November 18, 1997
The Bad, Good, And Great - November 14, 1997
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs - November 10, 1997
Worth The Effort? - October 27, 1997
The Greatest Is Love - September 27, 1997
Where Has All The Joy Gone? - September 12, 1997
Freedom to Teach - September 6, 1997
Too Much--reply - August 26, 1997
Too Much? - August 20, 1997
What Is An Education? - August 10, 1997
"'S'ence" of Learning in Community - July 22, 1997
Nothing is Instant - July 4, 1997
Dangers of Forgetfulness - June 29, 1997
At the End of the Term - May 28, 1997
A Treasure - May 12, 1997
What Would We Do? - May 6, 1997
In The Image of.... - May 2, 1997
Nothing's Automatic - April 27, 1997
THE STORY - April 19, 1997
Proverbs 23:7 - April 6, 1997
Road To The Final Four - April 1, 1997
A Student and A Sparrow - March 20, 1997
877 - March 17, 1997
Four Corners of the Classroom - March 13, 1997
I Was Just Thinking That.... - February 26, 1997
A Short Story - February 15, 1997
Burnout - February 11, 1997
You Never Know - January 23, 1997
Teaching IS Love - January 19, 1997
Next Play - January 11, 1997
Why do I have to take .... - January 7, 1997
The Classroom Should Be A Cathedral - January 2, 1997
Wonder and Hope - January 1, 1997

Random Thoughts from 1996

Another Gift - December 19, 1996
A Gift - December 17, 1996
Making Mistakes - November 29, 1996
Smile - November 14, 1996
A Long Random Thought: Let's Openly Celebrate - November 8, 1996
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - November 1, 1996
Another Random Thought Regarding John - October 29, 1996
John--My Reply - October 26, 1996
John - October 23, 1996
Educational Theater, II - October 18, 1996
Educational Theater - October 17, 1996
I Am A Teacher - October 6, 1996
A Poem - October 4, 1996
Yes, I Can - September 29, 1996
Idol Smashing - September 17, 1996
Just thinking - September 11, 1996
"What Do I Need For Your Class?" - September 8, 1996
One Wish - September 6, 1996
A Small Bit of Advice - August 29, 1996
Learning Fundamentals - August 25, 1996
Keeping Score - August 20, 1996
Greatest Danger to my teaching--my long reply - August 16, 1996
The Greatest Danger to My Teaching - August 11, 1996
More "You Know...." - August 8, 1996
"You Know..." - August 2, 1996
Passion of an Education - July 5, 1996
A Thought For Today - July 3, 1996
A Letter From Sarah - June 25, 1996
My Favorite Educators - June 20, 1996
More About Sam - June 11, 1996
A Microburst of Burnout - June 5, 1996
WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP IT'S BEEN - May 29, 1996
(Introduction to Random Thoughts II: Teaching from the Heart)
Student Journaling - May 1, 1996
Doughnuts and Holes - April 21, 1996
At the End of the Day - April 17, 1996
Closure - April 6, 1996
Being A Teacher - March 31, 1996
The Classroom Is Not A Factory - March 9, 1996
Kim, Teaching, And Gold Mining - March 6, 1996
What Would The Classroom Be Like If.... - March 3, 1996
My Own Ignorance - February 27, 1996
Yemenja - February 25, 1996
"Wholeness" - February 6, 1996
Teaching and Research - February 3, 1996
Academia's Disease - February 1, 1996
Being A Teacher - January 31, 1996
What Kind of Teacher Impresses You? - January 22, 1996
On Courage, a reply to a reply - January, 1996
The Power of Caring--A Reply - January, 1996
Anxiety in the Classroom, A Reply - January, 1996
Anxiety In The Classroom - January 6, 1996

Random Thoughts from 1995

A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION - December 30, 1995
ON COURAGE - December 29, 1995
THE POWER OF CARING - December 8, 1995
FEELING IN THE CLASSROOM - December 5, 1995
ON TENURE - November 30, 1995
WHAT KIND OF TEACHER ARE YOU? - November 29, 1995
YOU ARE A PERSON - November 21, 1995
SILENCE AND THE CLASSROOM - November 12, 1995
TO TOUCH IS TO LEARN - October 22, 1995
THE REAL MIRACLE OF THE CLASSROOM - October 18, 1995
A LETTER - October 15, 1995
HEART, INTELLIGENCE, AND RESUME - October 13, 1995
THE "I" OF TEACHING - October 8, 1995
STUDENTS AS SEEDS - September 24, 1995
STUDENT DEVELOPMENT: ACADEMIA'S "SECOND SON" - September 14, 1995
HUMILITY, FAITH, AND TEACHING - September 1, 1995
TO BE LIKED - August 25, 1995
A STUDENT'S JOURNEY - August 20, 1995
WHY GO TO COLLEGE? - August 16, 1995
SNIPPETS - August 10, 1995
MY FAVORITE MISTAKE - August 3, 1995
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM - July 20, 1995
ON TENURE - July 18, 1995
THE FUN OF IT ALL--A REPLY - July 3, 1995
THE FUN OF IT ALL - June 30, 1995
THE CHILD WITHIN US - June 27, 1995
THE "WHY" OF IT ALL - June 21, 1995
QUESTIONS I ASK MYSELF - May 31, 1995
ROBERTA AND KIM - May 26, 1995
THE INTERNET AND ME - May 24, 1995
CAVES, WEBS, AND THE HOMELESS - May 17, 1995
RULES OF THE ROAD - April 25, 1995
AN ACADEMIC VERSION OF GENESIS - April 12, 1995
WHAT KIM CAN TEACH US - April 11, 1995
KIM AND A TOOTSIE POP MOMENT - April 8, 1995
A TOOTSIE POP MOMENT - April 5, 1995
NO MIRACLES - March 28, 1995
END OF QUARTER - March 20, 1995
CARING ABOUT STUDENTS - March 4, 1995
THE ESSENTIAL STUDENT - March 2, 1995
THE REAL TEACHING MARVEL IN EDUCATION - March 1, 1995
THE HEART OF TEACHING - February 26, 1995
REACHING STUDENTS, II - February 10, 1995
WHAT IS IT WE GET PAID TO DO - February 9, 1995
REACHING STUDENTS - January 30, 1995
REMEMBERING SAMANTHA--A REPLY - January 24, 1995
REMEMBERING SAMANTHA - January 22, 1995
THE CLASSROOM IS A GARDEN, IV - January 12, 1995
THE CLASSROOM IS A GARDEN, III - January 1, 1995

Random Thoughts from 1994

THE CLASSROOM IS A GARDEN, II - December 26, 1994
THE CLASSROOM IS A GARDEN, I - December 24, 1994
MORE ON SUSAN - December 8, 1994
STUDENT "ABUSE" - November 29, 1994
THE REWARDS OF GOOD TEACHING - November 25, 1994
THE GOOD TEACHER - November 7, 1994
WHAT BEING A TEACHER BOILS DOWN TO - October 17, 1994
WHAT AN EDUCATION BOILS DOWN TO - October 5, 1994
TEACHING PORTFOLIOS - September 19, 1994
ON EDUCATION - September 8, 1994
THREE TEACHING PRINCIPLES - August 16, 1994
FROM PROFESSOR TO TEACHER - July 26, 1994
A SEARCH FOR MYSELF - July 13, 1994
TEACHING AND CARING - July 5, 1994
MORE ON TO BE A TEACHER - June 28, 1994
TO BE A TEACHER - June 23, 1994
STUDENT BLOOPERS - May 12, 1994
TEACHING STYLE - May 5, 1994
LEARNING COMMUNITY - April 30, 1994
THE APOLOGY AND JULISSA - April 23, 1994
APOLOGY - April 16, 1994
FACULTY EVALUATION - April 10, 1994
MORE ON GRADES - March 27, 1994
GRADES - March 24, 1994
CRAMMING - March 14, 1994
CHEATING/LEARNING - March 11, 1994
CLASS SIZE - February 19, 1994
FEELINGS - January 28, 1994
REALLY RANDOM THOUGHTS - January 16, 1994
FOUR BOYS - January 15, 1994
BARBARA - January 13, 1994
JANE - January 5, 1994
THE MIND IS THE FUTURE'S FACTORY - January 4, 1994

Random Thoughts from 1993

EDUCATIONAL FAD 'N FASHION - December 29, 1993
FACULTY BOREDOM - December 22, 1993
FINAL EXAMS - December 15, 1993
MELINDA - December 11, 1993
THE RIGHT TO SUCCEED - November 22, 1993
RISKS - November 5, 1993
MORE ON COMMUNITY - November 2, 1993
COMMUNITY - October 31, 1993
CLASS HAPPENINGS - October 30, 1993
TEACHING AND RESEARCH - October 24, 1993
ON BECOMING A UNIVERSITY - October 9, 1993
MORE ON TOMMY - October 1, 1993
WHOSE SCHOOL IT IS? - September 29, 1993
THE HUMANITY OF TEACHING - September 15, 1993
BLUEBERRIES! - September 14, 1993
OFFICE HOURS - September 14, 1993
TOMMY - September 3, 1993
CLASS CONTROL - August 27, 1993
A TRIAD - August 19, 1993
THE CLIMB - August 10, 1993
PERFORMANCE AND ATTITUDE - August 9, 1993
GRADING EFFORT AND ATTITUDE - July 30, 1993
FELLOW TRAVELERS - July 30, 1993
INTELLECT OR CHARACTER - July 28, 1993
MORE ON THE METAPHOR EXERCISE July 27, 1993
A METAPHOR EXERCISE July 26, 1993
THE "GOOD" STUDENT - July 21, 1993
DIVERSITY - July 20, 1993
PEER PRESSURE - June 4, 1993
LIBERAL ARTS - May 27, 1993
MISS TROMBLY - May 23, 1993
COMMITMENT - May 11, 1993
WHAT A STUDENT NEEDS - May 8, 1993
A "HAPPENING" IN CLASS - May 5, 1993
CHARACTER-BASED EDUCATION - April 21, 1993

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