Category: Teaching as an Art

Walking on Ice

Morning frosts start suddenly here in the New England region. Here are practical tips for keeping safe if walking over ice without boots during the cold half of the year. Keep Your Weight Centered: Most people have a normal tendency to lean forward or backward while they walk. While walking over ice, however, it’s important [...]

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Jung and Impressionable

I’ve been reading this. So out of all the sensations thoughts feelings intuitions and imaginations you experience you choose a few and call it “I”. This is the ego, the brain function you identify with. It is the medium of your experience, but it is not “You.” Your Self consists not only of your conscious [...]

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Psychiatric Marijuana

Someday it will be conclusively proven that the THC in marijuana blocks neural pathways. The negative effects of this neural blockage are well-documented; I’d like to share observations, based on personal experience, which I believe may redeem marijuana as a useful tool in brain development (or, as will be seen, re-development and corrective psychiatry). As [...]

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Attention, Please

The teacher’s first task is to convince his students that it’s in their best interest to learn, so that he’ll have their full attention as he teaches. In the fast-paced, ADHDTV world in which kids are raised today. this is more difficult than it’s ever been. This strategy assumes that the teacher actually has something [...]

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