After devoting the vast majority of my writing and thinking to education-related issues and other publishing platforms in the past year or two, I’ve decided to revive the ‘Stew! Out… Read more Busyness Is Not A Badge Of Honor →
I’ll be the first one to admit it: I value financial security and material comfort, I save for retirement, and I sometimes worry about finances. But after reading Ben Hewitt’s book Saved: How I Quit Worry About Money and Became the Richest Guy in the World, I’ve been inspired to blog. Like Bill McKibben’s Deep Economy, the text challenged me to ponder just how unsustainable the modern paradigm of constant corporate and economic growth is, urging us to examine what it means to be wealthy. Let’s consider community, time,… Read more Wealth As Community, Time, and Freedom →
I’m not sure when I realized a determination to continue to learn and do things that do not actively require a digital screen. This desire to be present and… Read more What Do You Do Without A Screen? →
While strolling around a village about 45 minutes outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand, my wife Rebecca and I got inevitably lost amongst the dry rice fields, the occasional passing motorbike,… Read more Thailand: Idealism and Reestablishing the Travel Bug →
As much as I love being online, blogging, Tweeting, and the like, I don’t like how demanding it feels sometimes. How, if I don’t write a captivating post or send… Read more Maintaining a Blogging Presence, Catalysts, and Inspiration →
Imagine a 30 by 30 room, with students sitting silently in rows, ostensibly listening to lectures, text messages covertly being sent inside hoodie pockets, and whispers here and there. Eventually,… Read more Classrooms Without Borders →
If you watch one TED Talk this week, check this out. So many great nuggets of wisdom: “Growing your own food is like printing your own money…gardening is my graffiti,… Read more →
I remember a frying pan encrusted with the remnants of beans and pork fat, empty two-liter bottles, and cautious stares as I worked on construction projects with my church youth… Read more From the Bluegrass to The Navajo Nation →
I prepared for my first teaching gig undaunted by my lack of experience. After all, I had a literature degree from a prestigious liberal arts school, I had been mostly… Read more The Myth of the Super Teacher →
Paul Barnwell 