Category: Imagination
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February 17, 2023 Thanks to James Robertson, HMU student, for today’s blog. In a poem, Whitman writes “This is no book; who touches this touches a man” (Leaves of Grass). In contrast, Plato has Socrates observe that “writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet …
October 28, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Fortunately for us, David Hume wrote a lot of his thoughts down in his book A Treatise on Human Nature. Yet it might not have been so. At the end of Book I, Hume admits, in lengthy detail, that he doubts himself, his …
June 10, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.” – John Baker, The Peregrine ”Learning is a profession….” – Zena Hitz 2022 Fellow in Ideas David Yamada recently wrote a book review that inspired me. Per his suggestion, I quickly …
June 4, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Summer provides an excellent time to write. If any of you (or your students) tire of standard five paragraph essays and thesis statements (as I do), then use the summer to free yourself of these restrictions. Today’s blog suggests a couple of ways …
December 18, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. During this pandemicky year, a friend of mine has taken to writing me a letter every day. She usually includes details about the workday, family responsibilities, emotions of being at home, etc. A few times, she has included an old postcard, written more …
February 7, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “If this war is to be forgotten, I ask in the name of all/ things sacred what shall men remember?” ~ Frederick Douglass Since Natasha Trethewey chose this quote to introduce her poem “Native Guard,” I also begin with it. As the centerpiece …
January 24, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s blog. How do metaphors reveal a hidden truth? Question 1, Article 8 of Aquinas’s Summa Theologica investigates whether or not Sacred Doctrine is a matter of argument. One common answer, as Aquinas notes, would be to say that they are articles of faith. However, …
August 30, 2019 Thanks to Jennifer Taylor, a 2019 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. It feels like August has only just begun, but somehow it is drawing to a close suspiciously quickly. As a new teacher, this inevitably results in mixed emotions. I – and I believe I can safely …
August 23, 2019 Thanks to Laken Brooks, a 2019 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. From the Three Blind Mice to Mary Ingalls Wilder, blindness remains a rare — albeit important topic in children’s literature. In the past, many literary representations presented blindness (and disability overall) as a tragedy or even …
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August 2, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. With the new school year just around the corner, I thought it might be fun to offer up a poetry lesson for elementary school. I find this lesson on haiku fits well into the second grade curriculum with a focus on syllable count. …
