Blogs about: Diogenes

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A View from the Foothills

spiritof44 wrote 4 days ago: In his engaging memoir Chris Mullin recalls visiting old family friends on Christmas Day, 2004.  Mal … more →

Tags: Anecdotes & reminiscences, OfSted, School inspections, Chris Mullin

Don't get so hung up over figuring out life's hangups that they hold you up from actually living.

nexusofnow wrote 3 weeks ago: Looking ahead to Sunday’s quote on my Zen Calendar, I saw a quote from Diogenes: “We ar … more →

Tags: Quotes, Poetry, nowism, Philosophy, Zen, Taoism, Pragmatism, enlightenment, Ikkyu

EDUCATION; Out of sight, out of mind? - A reply

spiritof44 wrote 4 weeks ago: Dear Diogenes What’s missing?  I’d suggest to Balls-Mandelson and their cortege that they should all … more →

Tags: Current Policies, Ed Balls, harvard, Juvenile, michael sandel, peter mandelson, Reith Lecture

EDUCATION: Out of sight, out of mind?

spiritof44 wrote 1 month ago: Dear Juvenile You’re a sprightly observer of the cosmos, so I wonder whether you can tell me what is … more →

Tags: Current Policies, Juvenile

Diogenes the Cynic: The Man Who Became a Dog4 comments

melissanavia wrote 1 month ago: VM – Society Rising – Philosophy The Man Who Became a Dog A look back at a true Cynic marks th … more →

Tags: Society Rising, Philosophy, Alexander the Great, Socrates, L.E. Navia, Cynicism

Diogenes Barrel

ballayne wrote 1 month ago: Diogenes was a Greek philosopher from the time of Aristotle and  possibly one of the great practical … more →

Tags: Barrels, change, Cynicism, Homeless

FAITH AND EDUCATION

spiritof44 wrote 1 month ago: Not faith schools, but faith in the people in schools: in pupils, students, teachers, and even gover … more →

Tags: Current Policies, curriculum, History, Faith Schools, School Curriculum, tyrrell burgess

ARCHETYPAL OVERLOAD! Samsara, Icarus, Nicodemus, The Cynic Diogenes, The Prodigal Son, Kafka's Hunger Artist, Socrates, Odysseus, Freud's Oedipal Totem and Taboo Idealized Daddy Memory, and Christian Conversion---All in a Kansas Song! (And Accompanied by a Greek Chorus!)

santitafarella wrote 1 month ago: Really. Listen: Once I rose above the noise and confusion (just to get a glimpse beyond this il … more →

Tags: Archetype, Christian, Conversion, Freud, greek tragedy, Icarus, Kansas, Nicodemus, odysseus

“SCHOOLS MISS OUT ON CASH SURPLUSES”

spiritof44 wrote 1 month ago: “2000 SCHOOLS IN DEFICIT” “HEAD TEACHER SUSPENDED IN BONUS ROW” Three recent headlines tell the same … more →

Tags: Current Policies, DCSF, Ed Balls, National Audit Office

A STEP IN THE DARK

spiritof44 wrote 1 month ago: The Basildon Academies are looking for sixteen outstanding managers. Each will lead a ‘college’ of 1 … more →

Tags: Current Policies, Teaching, Academies, Basildon

Go to bed, Diogenes!

valleyvirus wrote 2 months ago: Relax, Diogenes, I found your honest man: “I can’t fucking stand that fucking song! … more →

Tags: Main Catagory, Wonderwall, NOEL GALLAGHER, free tibet, wankers, Twat

A PROPHET IN THE WILDERNESS

spiritof44 wrote 2 months ago: Henry Morris [1889-1962] was an educational giant, a chief education officer who envisaged in Cambri … more →

Tags: leas, History, Henry Morris, Cambridgeshire, chief education officer

KWIK FIX or LONG HAUL?

spiritof44 wrote 2 months ago: “Outstanding” is how Ofsted rates Ecclestone Mere Primary School.  “Outstanding,” not once, but thre … more →

Tags: Primary Education, Current Policies, School inspections, OfSted, SATS, Ecclestone, philip friend

HIS STRONGEST SUIT

spiritof44 wrote 2 months ago: “Accountancy,” says Jack Straw, “does not appear to be my strongest suit.”   And he is not alone. On … more →

Tags: Department for Education, DCSF, Jack Straw

AN OPEN LETTER TO MR MICHAEL GOVE MP

spiritof44 wrote 2 months ago: Dear Michael You are so often in my living room with your fellow News Night Review panellists I feel … more →

Tags: Central Control, curriculum, ken baker, School Curriculum, Michael Gove, Newsnight

Free as Diogenes: a fantasy9 comments

andreaskluth wrote 2 months ago: One of my idols–and everybody has many and mutually contradictory idols–is Diogenes, th … more →

Tags: History, Life, Success!, asceticism, Classics, cynic, Cynicism, Freedom, greatest thinker

Zuletzt gelesen

emilywalton wrote 2 months ago: Martin Suter – Small World Konrad Lang ist ein alter Alkoholiker, der bis ins hohe Alter vom U … more →

Tags: Buchtipps, deutsch, Alzheimer, Die dunkle Seite des Mondes, Lilah, Literatur, Martin Suter, Roman, Small World

living with superiors

iapetus wrote 2 months ago: “A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; no … more →

Tags: Quotes, Philosophers, superiors, Fire, Burn, freeze, 323 BCE, Living With Others

less is more

blaquesmith20 wrote 2 months ago: He whose desires are few gets them; he whose desires are many goes astray. Lao Tzu from the Tao Te C … more →

Tags: One a day, Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Alexander the Great


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