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October is here, the month of my birth, as is Libra season. Though it happens every year, I am endlessly amazed by the sense of power I feel as Fall descends. This is my time in that curious metaphysical sense (isn’t time always metaphysical?) But there’s so much more to it this October; the stakes […]
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Our new Central School for forms seven and eight was an exciting big school. The smell of a thousand lunches lingered in the corridors and the desks were heavily carved with the initials of a thousand generations of previous students. It was red brick and two storey with the Headmaster’s office in the centre on […]
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In the early 1990’s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I was part of a group of artists from the U.S.A and Europe who were invited by a town in former East Germany to create artworks to commemorate the German reunification. There I met Jennifer, a fellow sculptor, and we became friends. For her […]
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UGH! Pictured here is a tragedy of tradition. What I have fondly come to think of as Mr.-Tippy-Head-Candy-Face came into my life, um, some time ago. I have fond “growing up” memories of him being filled with seasonal treats which my siblings and I would enjoy after tipping-his-head into our hands. My mother, understanding that […]
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The first school I attended was the storied one-room schoolhouse. An old whitewashed building with a red roof and a vane on the peak, it sat at the top of an unpaved hill surrounded by farmland (including a barn rife with livestock) in a then-unincorporated area of Urbana, Illinois, in the heart of the American […]
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Grief leads such a contrary existence. People have to die in order for it to be born. My brother died in Richmond, Virginia on a set of railroad tracks. He was 25. An ocean away, I died in Strasbourg, France in the Musée Tomi Ungerer. I was 22. His cause of death? Unknown. There wasn’t […]
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Training at educational institutions turns into a kind of a technological process with predetermined goals and a guaranteed result. Naturally, education cannot completely turn into production. The personal characteristics of each student are one of the decisive factors in the compilation of the curriculum. Let’s figure out how innovations contribute to the democratization of learning. […]
