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\"Springtime<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m thinking about spring, and the need to seize the day, and do the thing that is appropriate for the moment. It’s time to emerge from our winter cocoons!<\/p>\n

Spring means being outdoors<\/strong>, breathing great gulps of crispy-fresh air, moving winter-weary bodies and bones in unfamiliar ways, clearing mental cobwebs along with the physical. It’s simply not human to be confined, institutionalized, imprisoned, when life is waiting.<\/p>\n

Even in the heart of the largest cities, there are pockets of green in which to rejoice in the new season (I know, because I grew up in the heart of a very large city, and green was nourished and cherished). For your children’s sake, clear the calendar of obligations, and go outside. Work in the yard, take a picnic to the park, ride bikes, play basketball, walk, walk, walk!<\/p>\n

Finally, here is a quote from John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education<\/span>,<\/a> page 129. Call it a thought for the day!<\/p>\n

“What should make you suspicious about school is its relentless compulsion<\/span>. Why should this rich brawling, utterly successful nation ever have needed to resort to compulsion to order people into school classes– unless advocates for force-schooling were driven by peculiar philosophical beliefs not commonly shared?”<\/p>\n

If you’d like to read more of Gatto’s thoughts on education, I recommend Dumbing Us Down<\/em><\/a>. It’s interesting, to say the least.<\/p>\n

Now… how about enjoying those daffodils (and William Wordsworth’s poem<\/a> about them, too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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