Author: cburell
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“What is Schooliness?” – Discursus and Open Thread (Clay Burell guest-post 2)
I Love Learning. I Hate Schooliness. –this is my motto. It’s one of the reasons I wrote (in a post, “On Leaving Teaching to Become a Teacher,” with about 70 comments now), I’m not sure how much longer I want to work for schools. I’d so much rather teach. So what is “schooliness”? I have…
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A Short, Strange Trip into the 21st Century, Part 1 (guest post by Clay Burell)
Prologue: A Remembrance Before I was sentenced to twelve years of forced labor at this modern invention called “school,” I had a couple of years of toddler freedom to explore the vast wonders of my small world. A particularly magical place was my father’s closet. A costume gallery of shirts, pants, coats, ties, and suits…