Those who can't do, teach. Isn't that what they say?It's a cutting taunt that highlights a dichotomy between the doers and the thinkers — a chasm between two attitudes toward life. Advocates of this idea suggest that theory-based learning has little value in the practical, hands-on, day-to-day doing of work. It says that those pursuing a teaching career are somehow inept in the real-world matters …
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Bandura on Selective Moral Disengagement
As I observe this world of people, it seems that moral disengagement is active everywhere, not least among politicians and corporate leaders. In the workplace, for example, many choose to ignore immoral and unethical practices. We put our heads down, blinkers on, and just get on with the work when we know very well that what is going on is unacceptable. For example, when a colleague is mistreated …
Sunday Letters: Welcome Back
I wrote to you earlier this week on Substack with the news that Sunday Letters was making its way home to this website. This current issue is, in fact, the first time that Sunday Letters reaches your inbox directly from the backend of this self-hosted WordPress site. Before now, I relied on third-party services such as MailChimp or Substack. From now on, I'll handle each issue with the tech on …
Annie Dillard on Time, Structure, Coffee, & Learning A Trade
Welcome to the return of Sunday Letters, the weekly newsletter on life, work, and the pursuit of happiness. This week, I'm reaching back into the archive and a short piece I wrote several years ago after reading The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. For today's issue, I have taken a few hours to run an edit over things and add additional thoughts. I'll do this for the next few weeks and months in an …
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Albert Einstein on The Need For A Socialist Economy
Albert Einstein Socialist was published first in The Sunday Letters Journal: https://sundayletters.larrygmaguire.com/p/albert-einstein-on-the-need-for-a by Larry G. Maguire on Sun, 11 Jun 2023 08:48:59 GMTI am a socialist in my base orientation, in my philosophy for life and work. I have always been this way, even before I knew what Socialism was. I am a socialist in the sense that I am for people …
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Wellington Street
Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc. I remember sitting in the classroom on what may have been my first day, but I can't be sure. It was Miss Tobin's class, and I must have been only five years old. The tables were flecked grey, like hospital linoleum floor covering. When pushed together, they'd make a hexagon for us to sit around in our miniature red plastic …