Why blog at all?

I seem to be more preoccupied with the whole idea of getting this blog going, than actually saying anything useful. I guess this points to some deep-seated issue I have with blogging.

So why blog?

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In this particular case it is because some educators expressed curiosity about what I am seeing and learning as I explore this terrain. (Ooops, mixed metaphor. Weren't we talking of paths....?)

A number of educators/teachers have been extremely generous in welcoming me into their classrooms to observe what transpires in there and in sharing their thoughts about the profession.. This blog is a way of saying Thank You to them - by sharing what I am seeing/hearing/perceiving.

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To me, a blog would be a narcissistic conceit were it not for comments. It would just be the "Here is what I think" part, without the "I am keen to hear what you have to say" part that makes for a conversation.

I hope this blog can, at least for a time, continue the conversations I began in schools I visited. I sincerely hope that you, the reader, will leave comments that extend my thinking, and thus the conversation.

Please do contribute your ideas, recommendations of further reading (blogs, books, websites, movies), quotes you like about children and teaching and the world in general. Anything you care to say, really.

DISCLAIMER: Everything that will appear in this blog is personal opinion. Even when it is in quotations or when it may be obvious to you who the source is, what I write represents the meaning that I chose to extract (colored as it will be with by my own past, where I am at present, and the direction I am looking forward in).