The teacher handed out a coloring page to her class. On it was a picture of a duck holding an umbrella. The teacher told the class to color the duck in yellow and the umbrella green; however, Leland, the class rebel, colored the duck in a bright fire truck red.

After seeing this, the teacher asked him: "Leland, how many times have you seen a red duck?"

Young Leland replied, "The same number of times I've seen a duck holding an umbrella."

Friday, November 26, 2010

Crocduck



I'm currently reading "Work Hard. Be Nice" by Jay Mathews and the main purpose of this site is to keep tabs on texts that deal - for the most part - with educational issues (in the United States) and teaching strategies. 

So, here is my first post - my efforts to unstitch the golden embroidery of rules we were taught in school, stretch it out tight, and keep record of the measurements so we can possibly weave a better version of what we currently have. Idealistic? Yes, but I'm already disgusted by how many times I might have photocopied worksheets that were ducks holding umbrellas. 

Given many issues within our nation's educational system, I consider the image above to be a fairly accurate daemon - from Philip Pullman's series - of public schools and thought it might be necessary to have such an icon to affectionally refer to when analyzing its tendencies. 
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