Author: Christe McMenomy
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October 24: Chartres Cathedral
We haven’t been publishing here much (or at all) for a long while. We’ve been teaching and upgrading our platform and generally busy running the school. Most days, we try to put something in the all-day Commons chat for people to think about as they wait for class to start. Often the ideas for these…
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Thinking Outside the Cell
One of the greatest difficulties I have as a teacher is getting a student to ask questions. In the modern classroom, asking questions means admitting ignorance, and somehow, despite the fact that the student is there to learn something he presumably doesn’t already know, not knowing has become a character or moral failing. Some students…
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The Parking Problem
When we first moved to Seattle, we were entranced by the wealth of cultural and educational institutions: art museums, parks, opera, symphony, musical theater, zoos, aquariums, historical monuments. We had quite a list of places to explore, and were excited about visiting them. But after a few years of actual residence, we realized that we…
