Essai

Ch 2: Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism

Reflections on Chapter 2: And a growing Reading Guide for Arendt’s enormous history of 20th century totalitarianism, and what we might need to know from it.

“Education is Freedom” – Nine Answers

For years, my entire pedagogical philosophy has been captured on my automobile license plate. Let me explain. . . .

Ch 1: Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism

Reflections on Chapter 1: And a growing Reading Guide for Arendt’s enormous history of 20th century totalitarianism, and what we might need to know from it.

 
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Day 0: Films to Books and . . .

Day 0: Films to Books and . . .

If I had to guess, it’s that many missed a key idea of translation to a different medium: transformation. Creating story for a poem, podcast, movie, painting, symphony, short story, campfire talk, or novel are each significantly different acts,

Essai – 

After Michel deMontaigne, to essai is to engage in a prose act of skepticism, an exploration of a topic as perceived or understood by the writer. You might think of it as a “testing,” an experiment in idea-making. Alas, our education system long ago turned this critical verb into a static noun scored by rubrics in red ink for purposes political and often crippling. 

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