Community Building
“The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.” A statement from Bahá’u’lláh the prophet founder of theBahá’i faith should be the prerequisite principle to guide any discussion about building …
Land reform must follow Hurricane Melissa
In 1838, slavery was abolished in the British West Indies. It was the end of an over 300-year policy, practice, and business of enslaving Africans to work on the sugar plantations on …
World Order Appears to be coming apart, but this is a time of Great Hope
This is an angry and frustrated world we live in today. Can you feel it as you move about your day, or watch the news and social media stories? Evidence of …
Eye movements and reading
Current reading practices operate on the belief that the eyes play a pivotal role in picking up information that is essential for reading. So central is this belief that whole programmes …
Welcome to the Rock
Emergency! No planes can land in the United States. There’s been a terrible accident!! Or something?? All planes coming from Europe and the East diverted to a small island in the …
Another Country
I was 14 in 1961 when my family moved to Istanbul, Turkey, from the United States for a one-year Fulbright appointment that my dad received. He was offered a position to …
The Notebook
“If our teaching is to be an art, we must draw from all we know, feel and believe in order to create something beautiful. To teach well we do not need …
World Crisis
Repeatedly what I encountered on a long trip to South America, the coast of Africa, Morrocco and Spain reinforced the fact that nowhere in the world is exempt from the concern …
The hands-off protests
I lived through the Civil Rights and Vietnam eras in the 1960-70s when hundreds of thousands of people protested racism and the war with marches and speeches. We came away thinking …
Education that unites us and builds strength
Instead of supporting separation and divisiveness, as I pointed out in my article for Public Opinion December 20, 2024 and reprinted February 28, 2025, education can promote unity, investigation, curiosity and …
Education Defines Us And Separates Us
Since I started teaching in the 1970s, I watched as educators began promoting divisions by pulling students out into ‘special education’ resource rooms. I remember how my classes changed when students …