Tag Archives: teaching
FMM 6 6 2025 Todo el mundo Bailando!
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein. I heard yesterday that there is a type of English known as ‘Miami English’. Unlike Spanglish, which freely mixes the two languages, switching mid-sentence from one to the other and then back, Miami English is predominantly […]
FMM 5 23 2025 Secrets and Shame
“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.” ~ Friedrick Nietzsche. One of the joys of retirement is that road trips can be the way to get to far distant events. This also means that routines are disrupted, and Friday morning messages are late! Which is the case […]
FMM 2 23 2024 Act Three
“I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.” ~ Walt Mossberg. My father retired from full-time employment at the age of almost 66. At the time he was in fairly good health (although he had suffered a heart attack over a […]
FMM 3 3 2023 Practice what you Preach
“What you do speaks so loud, that I cannot hear what you say.”~ C. L. Stuart. I suppose all of us can identify a teacher that made a huge impression on us as a child, for good or bad. In teaching ‘dosage calculation’ to nursing students, it is clear that many are traumatized by some […]
FMM 2 25 2022 Kindling
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot. I was born in a cold and rainy city, in a cold December month. At that time in England, the most common heating source in the houses was a coal fire-place. Coal was dirty, full of dust, brought deep out […]
FMM 1 21 2022 On the Tiptoe of Expectation
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” ~ James Baldwin. My father was a minister (parson, preacher) by education and vocation, but became a teacher when we moved to Jamaica. He had two jobs, his charge of three churches, and to be chaplain and parttime Bible Knowledge teacher at the high […]
FMM 4 9 2021 Tracing the Trajectory
“Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.” ~ Naomi Wolf. One of the challenges for the teacher of any subject, is trying to show how the topic is relevant, necessary, and worth learning. Most of us went through high school wondering ‘when am I ever going […]
FMM 1 11 19 ‘I have the time’
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” ~ Khalil Gibran. The joy of being a story-teller is that first you must collect the stories. Which means at the very least having willing ears and an open mind. Many of us don’t have the patience to hear a […]
FMM 1 4 19 A Repurposed Life
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. The old is new again. On my recent trip to the UK we rode from Bolton, a town nestled in the foothills of the Lancashire Pennines, in to the city center of Manchester. Rather than driving […]
FMM 10 13 17 The Allure of Alliteration
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.”~ Edgar Allan Poe. As children we were taught the art of remembering by a number of tricks. Even without big theories of pedagogy, the old time teachers knew that if you presented information in rhyme or in song, it laid […]
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