BRUCE DEITRICK PRICE is
a life-long novelist, painter, poet and essayist. Along the way, he was always fascinated by education: the subjects that
are taught; the methods used to teach them; and why the whole process isn't more skillfully organized.
TWO MILESTONES: this site now has more than 50,000 words of original
content. Second, this site has journeyed where no one else dared to venture: we have hailed Jay Leno as the country's
foremost educator. Please see "Educator of the Year" on homepage.
NB: This site starts from a profound concern
for school, student, and teacher. “Educators,” on this site, never refers to teachers. It refers to the managers
at the top, people with PhD's in Education, the ones who run the ed schools and impose policy. The more you study education
in the US, over the last century, the more you are forced to suspect that many of these so-called educators are cold-hearted
ideologues. It's a sad story; for more of it, please see "21: A Tribute to Rudolph Flesch."
CONTRARIAN: a visitor wrote to object to the
design, stating that "you have
broken almost every aesthetic rule." Ah well, if true, perhaps that is appropriate. This site, in almost every article,
is contrarian. The theme throughout is that so-called experts can't always be trusted. If the site's design announces
that this is not a place where you can expect conventional wisdom, that's a plus. (For a good example of contrarian thinking,
see "17: Understanding Robots.") PS: Actually, the design does serve a serious purpose,
which is to communicate that each article stands by itself, and is original and unique. This site can't appear to be corporate
or academic or typical because it aspires to be none of those things.
PLEASE ASSIST THIS SITE:
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tell friends and colleagues to have a look
** link to site or favorite article
** use articles in the classroom, especially "3: Latin Lives On"
** purchase reprint rights to an article; or commission
a new article
** become
an Advertiser or Site Sponsor
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invite the loquacious Mr. Price to lecture
* order AMERICAN DREAMS, the
experimental novel discussed in "MAX your creativity" (Article 10)
NEWS ON THE ART FRONT:
Bruce
Price's Open Studio will continue through 2008. Title: Low Tech/High Tech. It's a radical pairing of art from two
worlds: ink drawings and digital paintings. Visit Word-Wise Modern in Norfolk, Va.
Call 757-455-5020 for info.
For
sense of show, visit ArtNorfolk.com (newly redesigned).
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IDEALLY, Improve-Education.org would be promoted in magazines such as Smithsonian and the New Yorker. If
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"SMART GIFTS FOR SMART FRIENDS" is our Amazon boutique. "Featured Books" are picked by Bruce Deitrick Price to be just what
your friends would love. Plus, all the usual Amazon fare but weighted to favor the smart stuff.
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CONTACT:
757-455-5020 (Word-Wise Educational Services)
fax: 757-455-5516
email: wisewords AT earthlink.net
ART SITES: ArtNorfolk.com and Price.myexpose.com
LITERARY SITE: Lit4u.com (guiding principle: for the people, not the professors)
Tee
Shirt Designs & Some Other Novelties
Click
TeeShirtDesigns to go to Zazzle
where you can order either of the designs.
(Site and
all contents
© Bruce Deitrick Price 2005-08)
Note about Google
and Amazon ads: these companies are supposed to place only classy intellectual ads on this site. Well, robots are making these
decisions, so please understand if you see something mundane.
