If my sister wanted to read the Hardy Boys and she did , that was her prerogative. A detective is a detective is a detective. They would never stop me from reading what I wanted. The Nancy Drew books were great. As I retold this story a few months ago, I realized that if it were not for Ms. Gaddis and the other great teachers I had during my school years, I would not be where I am today. I would not be able to impact students in the way that I have during my career.
I would not be here in Eagle County, leading this amazing school community. Truly, I owe my success to my teachers. What I have witnessed here during my first few months in Eagle County schools are teachers and educational leaders who are just like Ms. They work tirelessly to instill in their students an impregnable sense of self-confidence, self-worth and a passion for literacy. There is no greater gift a teacher can bestow and a child can receive.
Gaddis planted seeds in me that took root back in fourth grade and have grown and flourished in me ever since. But, for some reason you arrived at this blog with a presumption about me and what I'd day, and you played that out. Donald, I don't care a bit about your political correctness.
It's your factual correctness I have issues with. Attributing the defeat of Hitler and Japan to the Americans and British is either outright ignorant or breathtakingly disingenuous. The Soviet Union fell under the weight of its own rigidity and internal power struggles. Had the U. China, being on much better terms with the U. They're not about to implode any time soon. When it comes to spreading democracy, we've got an incredibly lousy track record.
Well, we do if the assumption is that we want more democracy in the world. History says otherwise. This is, of course, due to a combination of the understanding that it's to our corporations' advantage to do business with regimes that are stable over decades and owe us something for their existence and that lovely attitude that E.
Are the Africans in Africa Prepared for independence? Do they have enough delinquents Among their juvenile descendants? Can they fill the air with smog enough? Their rivers with pollutions? Are their citizens involved enough For mental institutions? Are they smart enough to know enough To regulate their taxes, So the poor can pay the rich To keep the poor flat on their axes?
Do they know how to destroy What they produce for their enjoyment? Or employ enough machines To keep employees from employment? Have the natives the intelligence, Native wisdom or dexterity, To establish atom bases As the base of their prosperity?
In essence, have we morally The right to even plan To let the backward nations Join the Brotherhood of Man? And your Islamo-fascism owes much to these policies on our part. Ruling families run amuck in much of the Muslim world, supported by the U. The resulting poverty and lack of opportunity in the general populace is breaking out in Islamic fundamentalism, just as the same problems are breeding Christo-fascism in pockets of the U.
Those are the lessons of history we're in danger of forgetting, and you're part of the problem. If only you really were as sorry as you claim to be. I've made no presumptions other than you would understand what I said which you clearly don't. Name dropping? Surely you jest. Adams was not just a great teacher he was perhaps the wisest advisor and educator of the administration that launched the Anglo-American empire following the Spanish American War.
It was not pre-ordained and many resisted and attempted to sabotage its emergence both in America and England. The future of the modern world hung in the balance as a spider dangled over an ocean of chaos. He had little idea just how right he was about its future. Roosevelt, Lodge, Hay, Root, Mahan and the Adams brothers were key leaders and advisors behind the effort.
Two were clearly his pupils as young men and at least one or two in adulthood. All were his friends and sat at his table across from the White House many times debating the future of the world before the actually changed it forever. While he took upon himself the tattered mantle of a failure in his major literary efforts late in life he clearly succeeded beyond his wildest dreams in educating those that could make a difference in the world.
He suffered a stroke and couldn't complete his Education the way he wanted but it has still been voted the greatest work of non-fiction by an American.
I believe it and its author have been greatly underrated. How is that failure as an educator? How is that illogical as a counterpoint to your misinterpretation of what he meant? I'll leave it there for you and I've enjoyed this topic immensely.
Stephanie, a rudimentary understanding of history would serve your polemnical demagoguery well. The defeat of Japan was not directly due to American actions? The cold war didn't directly contribute to the collapse of the Soviet Union? Two of several of your sweeping errors breathtaking in their obvious biases against empire.
Try taking the opposite point of view. Can empire be a good thing? Adams urged that as well at every opportunity. Sir Donald, I have not suggested that H. I've said nothing like it. Donald, you're the one claiming that your Anglo-American empire is all that, and you're the one cherry-picking your data. Show me that your empire was sufficient to keep WWII going long enough for the atom bomb to be developed and dropped, or laud China and the Soviets as well.
Show me how the cold war was decisive and necessary against a disordered government that couldn't produce and transport the food needed to keep its own people from starving. Find a good historian with access to Soviet records who thinks it made the difference, not just a preening politician looking at reelection or legacy.
While we're talking about preening, you do understand that a rudimentary understanding of grammar and punctuation keeps the pointlessly long words from being as openly laughable, right?
For whom? Are you willing to sort through its effects on everyone to try to determine its effect in balance, or do you merely want to play cheerleader? Empire is an excellent thing for the merchant classes, making trade simpler and cheaper, opening new markets and creating new products. It's a good thing for a ruling class trying to distract a populace from domestic problems. Empire is complex and costly, and it isn't undertaken for altruistic reasons. Elvira: I corrected my post, yes.
I do that. Sometimes silently, sometimes loudly. In this case, if I recall correctly, I came across your post subsequent to seeing and fixing the error. But you are an ass, you are annoying, and you will not be commenting here any longer unless you can prove to me that you have some sort of redeeming qualities. I'll have you justify that last comma madam, and that "Seriously" is a complete sentence. Factual correctness?
Please, the end of the world beckons! There you have it. All empires are bad according to Stephanie. Chaos is of course much better. George Kennan and the Truman Doctrine anyone? Unfortunately history is truly complex and you are too brilliant to accept such a naive generalization without examining it to your own exacting standards you can only fail to impose on me.
I'll leave such exactitude to academics to quibble over like questionable grammar and punctuation on a message board. What never ceases to amaze me is how overconfident people are in their own understanding of history without actually reading it. Have you read the Education? Have you read the History? I sincerely doubt it. Do yourself a gigantic favor and take the plunge into a perspective opposite your own for a awhile and read them thoroughly.
As Adams would say "you have yet to enter such a city full of the play of thought" and sound much more like those preening politicians you so despise. Donald, it never ceases to amaze me how many people conflate political pronouncements with the actual events that happened.
You've done it consistently through this comment thread on a blog, by the way, not a message board. No, I haven't read the Education you'll have to be more specific about "the History" , but I don't subscribe to the idea that there is a single authoritative source for historical fact.
I read widely. Nor have you, for all you embrace Adams as though he were writing gospel, made any persuasive argument from your single source of knowledge. You've only made claims that you attempt to back by selectively ignoring history.
Chaos is not the only alternative to empire. It is, however, quite common for people who don't understand the complexities of a system to label it chaos in their ignorance.
As for that comma, I'll happily justify it once you figure out whom I was mocking by using "Seriously" as its own sentence. Hint: mine was the answer to a question. The History? For all our notions of God are taken from the ways of mankind, by a certain similitude which, though not perfect, has some likeness however. And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearances of things, does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy. Maxwell American author, speaker and pastor A response to Einstein's assertion that "God doesn't play dice"; a similar statement is attributed to Enrico Fermi Disputed Variant: Einstein, don't tell God what to do.
Variant: Don't tell God what to do with his dice. Variant: You ought not to speak for what Providence can or can not do. Snow, p. Waldersee in his diary, 6 February , after being dismissed from the position of Chief of the General Staff.
Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Nov. Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist - A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Teachers' Day , Personality , Teachers. Hey Em, it is okay to be mad, just remember where to direct your anger. God allows bad things to happen in order to grow our faith and trust in him.
The hardest lessons in life to learn are ones like these that make no sense to us. My aunt,. Next, was this seer in business at the time? It was at that moment I had to put my trust in a complete stranger, as they would take care of my child for the next seven hours.
I would imagine the parents would contact the administration to seek additional information deeming the teacher as competent. As an administrator I would listen to the concerns of the parents. Routine business. At the end of the missive was this quote: A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. What does this quote mean to you? It obviously means something good about teachers.
Maybe something good about education. That sounds like bad news. The system of education sucks, the professors suck, the students are getting the shaft, and this will affect the students for their whole lives, and through them society in general, and the course of history itself.
Bad teaching, Henry Adams is telling us, ruinz everything for everybody! But this is not what people think is happening, is it? A teacher is expected to teach truth, and may perhaps flatter himself that he does so, if he stops with the alphabet or the multiplication table, as a mother teaches truth by making her child eat with a spoon; but morals are quite another truth and philosophy is more complex still.
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