Learning

November 10, 2025November 7, 2025

Learning

I started my class late yesterday to allow my students more time to register for their spring classes. The process is typically chaotic with most not getting the classes they need.

I use the word “need” because most of the classes are requirements and depressingly is consistent with their response to this question I asked them: “Do any of you have any classes you’re really looking forward to taking in the spring?”…

Three Reasons History Rocks

Jimmy Carter was the first US president born in a hospital. That is the kind of historical fact that makes you go “hmmm that’s interesting.”

But history is more than a collection of interesting facts, dates and events. It is who we are and from where we came.

David McCullough’s new book, The American Spirit, is a collection of speeches some stretching back more than twenty years.

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