People from Real Life?

Some of these people came to talk to us in teacher school today. Also, drawing legs from a seated straight-on perspective is weird. 

I think, if this blog has done anything, it's helped me write about what I feel like are truths. To me. At the time. But, I think it's a very different thing to actually say them to people. It's fun. And I offer them as arguments, not as indoctrination or anything evil, but it's very different when you're trying to talk about the importance of love or writing or thinking and the words are coming out of your mouth in the moment.

But I think if you're not doing that, if you're not trying to touch on truths or big ideas or get your students to express big ideas, all the bits and pieces won't really stick.

So, in conclusion: big ideas. Practice saying them out loud and meaning them. And they're debatable. Obviously. "Conflicts with no easy answer" as I told a bunch of 9th graders about Romeo and Juliet. 

Also, don't yell at your students. Unless you want to do a lot more yelling. But I don't think yelling will make the need to yell go away. Yelling cannot drive out yelling. Only respect can do that. Martin Luther King never said that.