I have become convinced over the last couple of years that we are facing a crisis of bad parenting in this country. By which I don’t necessarily mean the usual complaints of overly indulgent parents or abusive parents, although these can certainly be a problem. What I find particularly problematic is a lack of knowledge [...]
Archive for April 5th, 2008
This is fantastic!
Posted in education, kids, tagged current events, education, families, language development, life, low income families on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ain’t that the truth?
Posted in life, tagged Aeschylus, ecclesiastes, life, quotes on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading an excellent column by Clarence Page today about Robert F. Kennedy’s speech in Indianapolis on the day that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. In his speech RFK quotes the ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus:
He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by [...]
