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“Joan,” I asked my friend as we walked the streets of Madrid on an early evening in late winter, “why does it say ‘ONCE’ on all the kiosks here?” Joan stopped to look at me. “‘Once’? It says ‘Once’ on a kiosk?” “Not just one kiosk, Joan,” I told him. It says ‘ONCE’ on every […] Once again, year’s-end reminiscing has me dipping into the archives to see what I was thinking way back when. Here’s a piece I wrote twenty years ago, and published in the November 1978 issue of the North Shore Press, a brief and ill-fated experiment in alternative journalism here on the island. Has anything much changed […] I’m trying to describe a theater of teaching and learning that had enormous impact on me and in some important ways shaped my own sense of the dramaturgy of the classroom. I internalized that version of the classroom as theater just before a series of major stylistic changes in education began — changes that generated new kinds of teachers and students as well. […] “Does the once-victim interrupt himself and leave at his own stop? Or does the man finally exhaust his anger, let it go after all those years, maybe even take the other to dinner — in order to ask him, over coffee and pie, ‘How did we come to this? What system has put us at each other’s throats?'” […] Remember this: You are an animal. You have always been an animal. You will remain an animal. You will die an animal. Driving a car, reading Kant, talking on your cellular phone, you did not depart the animal kingdom. Consider the alternatives: vegetable, mineral. Why not be what you are, delightedly, without reservation? […] |