Yesterday, I had the honor and privilege of presenting to a group of teachers in their beginning-of-year in-service training. I spoke on...

My wife recently bought some electric plug-in room deodorizers for our house. She asked me to install one that she had laid out for the...

“It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.” This goes back to what an earlier post said about the...

We’ve seen already how Napoleon Hill offered some good advice that writers can apply to the attitude they take toward their work. That’s...

In my last post, I mentioned that Napoleon Hill offered words of wisdom that could be applied to one’s writing. Among the quotations from...

In fact, I get a daily e-mail “thought for the day” from the Napoleon Hill Foundation http://www.naphill.org that has included numerous...

It finally happened, just as I had long fear it someday would. Several times, I have blogged about having too much to read (for example,...

“In their never-ending search for better ways to teach, educators are tempted to be enamored of anything new and to eschew what they...

“Don’t touch that-!” a mother says to her little toddler son, who is playing with a stick that he found on the ground. “Now don’t play in...

An effective teacher teaches such that the lowest-achiever, the least capable student in the classroom, can understand. If the lowest...

As the typical story line goes, the person dropped out of school (whether high school or college) early for a variety of reasons: to...

[Excerpt from Teacher: Teaching and Being Taught, pp. 193-94, available at https://www.amazon.com/Teacher-Teaching-Taught-Christian-Educa...

Some classrooms will probably have one or two students who could become stars, but our teaching must not be toward them; rather, if...

Today, I take a brief glance backward to August 28, 2015, when I posted this article, my first effort at blogging. Much has changed since...