Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Yes, I am more qualified than you to comment on some things. Decades of study and experience qualify me. I may not be correct, but I can justify my stances. And I know where my expertise ends.

Answers to math, physics, chemistry tests really don’t matter. It’s what happens in nature that matters.

I’m an atheist working in a public institution. One new colleague has taken to saying “god bless you” at the end of each conversation. It really annoys me.

Some things need to be repeated: “Personal incredulity is not evidence.”

Can we start calling it what it is? Drivel is my proposed word.

Here is your regular reminder... people are not motivated by logic, reason, or data. They are motivated by identity.

I support online teaching. I get "I hope you are having a good weekend... can you fix this before 8:00 on Monday?" emails over the weekend.

Great blog. No I won’t share it because of the excessive advertising.

Every technological innovation become obsolete.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galileo Galilei

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
- John Dewey

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
- John Dewey

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
- Stephen Jay Gould

“You did a great job and we’d like you to do it again this year” is leader speak for “I have no idea what you did, but no one complained.”

Can we stop with using natural selection as a model for change in society? It’s a terrible metaphor.

Don’t conflate your prejudices with facts.

If you claim objectivity, you demonstrate you are not.

“If I can’t see it, it’s not real.” Yeah… I’m just going to walk away.

One thing I learned during 35+ years in education: “Grade level” is a vacuous construct.