Taylor the Teacher

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, chapter 5:

The racers were ready at dawn. Fine sunrise over the desert. Very tense. But the race didn’t start until nine, so we had to kill about three long hours in the […]

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A word from my favorite author and ultimate hero, Kurt Vonnegut:
This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
One of them was a science-fiction writer named Kilgore Trout. He was a nobody at the time, and he supposed his life was over. […]

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The Radical Libertarian says statism is a religion. Defenders of the state will irrationally defend it without regard to logic. I see the reaction he’s talking about all the time.

When I mention that I’m a philosophical anarchist people look at me like I am insane. “Anarchy means chaos!” they say. Whatever. I’m tired […]

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Teaching with Love and Logic by Jim Fay and David Funk is a fantastic book. I read it every school year. It’s one of the few books on teaching that isn’t 80% full of crap.
Whenever I implement the ways of thinking embodied in Teaching with Love and Logic, my classroom becomes a better place, I […]

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From “The Mystery of Marriage” by Mike Mason (p. 13-14):
… in getting married one espouses not an institution but a person, not a narrowness but an unimaginable breadth of possibility. For a person is the single most limitless entity in creation, and if there is anything that is even more unlimited and unrestrained in its […]

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