In 2002, we fell in love with Alaska and purchased property near Fairbanks. Our Alaska log home was built in 2003 by Bill Kisken of Log Weavers here in Fairbanks. Bill is an artist, who uses the hand scribed Swedish cope system. Notice how tightly the logs fit at the ends, this is very diffucult to achieve. We retired in 2013, and moved our residence to Alaska.


December 3, 2009

Robert Hutchins

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert Hutchins
Robert Hutchins' ideas are worth re-visiting in today's No Child Left Behind testing environment. I see our schools focusing more on test preparation and less on education. That's the wrong way to go. Hutchins, the Dean of Yale Law School and president of the University of Chicago, advocated educational perennialism-- the idea of teaching principles, reason and problem solving that could be used in a variety of situations in real life. I often tell my students to "teach themselves to teach themselves." Those students who can be independent learners will survive in tomorrow's job market.
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