Archive for December 6th, 2011
Naming of Parts, by Henry Reed
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 6, 2011
One poem that I particularly like (and have hanging outside the door of my lab) is “Naming of Parts” by Henry Reed; it contrasts a lesson in military weaoons with a flowering plant. My classroom looks out on a flower garden and I often think of this poem as I spot another student gazing wistfully [...]
The Two Cultures – why our schools are to blame
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 6, 2011
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer By Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, [...]
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