Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

I’ve always thought one of #leadership’s most important rolls was to block stupid ideas from trickling down. Either I was wrong or they largely fail... at least in #education... in my experience.

When all events and situations are interpreted in terms of political affiliation, we have lost all capacity for rationality.

Explaining what to do, but not why one does it, is like saying, “this is magic,” and we understand the world about as much as we do when watching a conjuring show.

“Yeah, you have a strong argument, but your assumptions are not based in reality,” is a difficult message to comprehend.

Maple syrup comes from trees and rickety wooded buildings that are used only a few weeks per year. All other brown liquids topping pancakes and similar carbohydrate-rich foods are apocryphal.