Apparently, having empathy and compassion are now sins, at least according to some of the algorithms of my various social media feeds. They have become buzz words embroiled in this political idea of “wokeness.” They are ideas that many seem to recoil from, given that they aren’t correct words to have in the political climate […]
Tag: learning
Languages
Those of you who have actually read my Portals Series will know that I have a love for languages. After all, the Portal Seeker, imbued with the magic of Wisdom, has the ability to learn to speak in almost any language of the Portals. Others become multi-lingual as well, learning them in a variety of […]
We are all teachers. But we are all students.
I once saw someone who was wearing a tee-shirt that read: I homeschool because I have seen the village and I don’t want it raising my kids. While I certainly understand the sentiment behind that statement, a part of me worries as well about the children this person is homeschooling. One day, they will be […]
Never too old to learn
I have often heard the idiom “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” In fact, an older person I talked to recently actually used that idiom to complain that he was too old to learn some of the new things in this world. I countered, of course, that he wasn’t old. After all, I […]
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