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Learning Students’ Names: Fun, Fast, Easy and Important

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Imagine a school where faculty and staff felt high job satisfaction and felt like they could focus on “excellence” rather than “not failing”.

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The Most Dangerous Phrase in Education

Aug 2, 2015

The Most Dangerous Phrase in Education

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President Kennedy's Favorite Poem

by ProfHParkersonJD

Nov 16, 2014

resident Kennedy’s Favorite Poem

"It is fitting, perhaps to quote President Kennedy's favorite poem:

"Young man, I have seen you strolling In the stillness of the Park. Day after day, hand in pocket Of the slim, familiar jacket, Twilight into dark.

"I have come to know your whistle, Know your collie, know your cap; Have...See Moreresident Kennedy’s Favorite Poem

"It is fitting, perhaps to quote President Kennedy's favorite poem:

"Young man, I have seen you strolling In the stillness of the Park. Day after day, hand in pocket Of the slim, familiar jacket, Twilight into dark.

"I have come to know your whistle, Know your collie, know your cap; Have see the straggling sunlight hold you, Watched the emerald grass enfold you, In its loving lap.

"With your lichened switch I see you Flick the mushrooms in your way. And I know what you are thinking. Would that, through the soft mist falling, You could hear a stranger calling: ‘Stay!’."

(If anyone knows the name of the poet, please notify Hardy Parkerson (337) 478-4370; Cell (337) 802-4041. THANKS!)

Interpretation of this Poem:

"This poem, like all good poems, tells many stories. Volumes of meaningful phrases could be written on the stories of this verse. "The two most outstanding illustrations are the personalities of the observed and the observer. The poem opens the window into the character of these two.

"Another vision which unfolds are the wonderful pictures of nature, adjectival without border.

"Most value, beyond a doubt, will be found in the analysis, and here vanity and frustration must take over; for the timid soul of the analyzer sees no difference in the scene from any we may pause to observe in this busy world." -J.D. Parkerson

Another Interpretation of this Poem

"In this poem I envison a young man who walks with his collie every evening through a park like Central Park in New York, perhaps overlooked by a large apartment building; and as he strolls through the park in the late afternoon, just before dark, an old person who lives in one of the high-rise apartments looks out of his or her window and watches him. The elderly person has become accustomed to seeing the boy and his dog each evening, and the old person looks forward to seeing him each day and hates when the boy and his dog pass out of sight or when the darkness of evening falls." -Hardy Parkerson

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Kiong-tschan Jin Hi Hardy,

I also have searched this poem's author for 50 years. I have read it first in the Englsh World magazine of South Korea when I was a middle school student in Seoul. I remember the author was an old female introduced by the editor of the magazine. And I remember the first line is not "in the stillness of the park", but &q...See More

Jul 21, 2015