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Daily Wisdom Will Return

Daily Wisdom, a collection of poetry, great quotes, fascinating facts and more will return the first day of school. Poem of the Day October. Here in this dank, unfamiliar kitchen I study my father’s embarrassed young man’s face. Sheepish grin, he holds in one hand a string of spiny yellow perch, in the other […]

June 11, 2012/by dpogreba

Debate Final: Personal Philosophy Paper and Presentation

Debate Class

The final for Debate class will be your presentation of a personal philosophy to the class, in written and oral form. Please review this assignment sheet and spend some time refining and developing your argument. The most important things to keep in mind are to be original, provocative, and honest. Write a philosophical position that […]

May 25, 2012/by dpogreba

Daily Wisdom Will Return

Daily Wisdom

June 11, 2012/by dpogreba

Debate Final: Personal Philosophy Paper and Presentation

Debate Class

May 25, 2012/by dpogreba

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Daily Wisdom Will Return

Daily Wisdom

Daily Wisdom, a collection of poetry, great quotes, fascinating facts and more will return the first day of school.

Poem of the Day

October. Here in this dank, unfamiliar kitchen
I study my father’s embarrassed young man’s face.
Sheepish grin, he holds in one hand a string
of spiny yellow perch, in the other
a bottle of Carlsbad Beer.

In jeans and denim shirt, he leans
against the front fender of a 1934 Ford.
He would like to pose bluff and hearty for his posterity,
Wear his old hat cocked over his ear.
All his life my father wanted to be bold.

But the eyes give him away, and the hands
that limply offer the string of dead perch
and the bottle of beer. Father, I love you,
yet how can I say thank you, I who can’t hold my liquor either,
and don’t even know the places to fish?

–Raymond Carver, Photograph of my Father

Fascinating Factoid

Germans are angry about their politics, too, as the New York Times notes:

They are called “Wutbürger.” And they have become the bane of every political party in Germany. Loosely translated as “enraged citizen,” the Wutbürger has stepped outside the classical political and parliamentary system by organizing demonstrations and town-hall meetings, protest marches and sit-ins.
“It’s as if the post-1945 consensus of Germans accepting the status quo and the conventional structures of the main political parties is coming to an end,” said Andrea Römmele, a professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. “These new trends should be seen as a strength, not as a threat to democracy,” she added.

Word Power

HYPNOPOMPIC: The drowsy state between being asleep and fully awake.

Example: During Mr. Pogreba’s lecture about logos, pathos, and ethos, most of the class could charitably described as hypnopompic.

[pextestim name=”Sentence of the Day:Edward Abbey” img=”https://quixoticpedagogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Edward-Abbey_000.jpg”]Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”[/pextestim]

June 11, 2012/by dpogreba

Debate Final: Personal Philosophy Paper and Presentation

Debate Class

The most important things to keep in mind are to be original, provocative, and honest. Write a philosophical position that is something you really believe, whether it’s about human nature or the nature of the universe.

Think of the Ralph Waldo Emerson, who called on his readers to write a philosophy of their own:

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also…. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.

Good luck!

May 25, 2012/by dpogreba