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My goal this year is to swim at least 30 miles. It's only July 1st, and I already have 27.5 miles in the bag! If I continue at this pace, I will swim over 50 miles this year. 🙂


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RATIONALISM is the belief in innate ideas, reason, and deduction.

EMPIRICISM is the belief in sense perception and induction, and that there are no innate ideas.

PRAGMATISM is a philosophical approach that assesses the truth of the meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical applications.

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Dear Reader: I'm especially elated over something I wrote this morning.  I just show up each day and write.  I never know what's going to come out of my unconscious depths, out of Jung's collective unconscious.  It might be the most profound thing I've ever written.  You be the judge.  - Don


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Over the course of twenty-two years of teaching adolescents English composition and literature in seven private high schools, each with radically different missions, I have been fascinated with a phenomenon I call “The Education Rectangle” and how its dynamics fundamentally affect education in general and teachers in particular.  Part of my ( Read more... )

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