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Bob's thoughts on education uedated as of 091811

Books

A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play - Vivian Gussin Paley
Aims of Education, The - Alfred North Whitehead
American Education 1607-1980 (3 vols.) - Lawrence A. Cremin
Art of Teaching, The - Gilbert Highet
Art of Teaching, The - Jay Parini
Black Tom – Arnold of Rugby - Terence Copley
Boy Life on the Prairie - Hamlin Garland
Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter - Seth Lerer
Closing of the American Mind, The – Alan Bloom
Craft of Teaching, The - Kenneth E. Eble
Death and Life of the Great American School System, The – Diane Ravitch
Democracy and Education - John Dewey
Educated Mind, The - Kieran Egan
English Reader, The – Diane Ravitch
Essential 55, The - Ron Clark
Far Away and Long Ago - W. H. Hudson (also, Idle Days in
Patagonia)
Harry Vernon at Prep - Franc Smith
Historical Roots of Elementary Mathematics, The - Bunt, Jones and Bedient
Honor: A History - James Bowman
I'm the Teacher, You're the Student - Patrick Allitt
In Plato's Cave - Alvin Kernan
In the Early World - Elwyn S. Richardson
Language & Human Nature - Mark Halpern
Learning in Depth – Kieran Egan
Lowering of Higher Education in American, The – Jackson Toby
Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, The – Iona and Peter Opie
Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others, Expanded Edition - Berlinghoff and Gouvea
Nebel’s Elementary Education: Creating a Tapestry of Learning - Bernard J. Nebel
Paideia (3 vols.) - Werner Wilhelm Jaeger
Paradoxes - R. M. Sainsbury
Prelude, The (all versions – try the Norton edition) - William Wordsworth (also, the Immortality Ode)
Quest for Certainty, The - John Dewey
Teaching Tips - Wilbert J. McKeachie & Graham Gibbs
Theory of Education in the United States - Alfred J. Nock
Vexations of A. J. Wentworth, B.A., The - Humphrey Francis Ellis
What Does It All Mean? - Thomas Nagel
What the Best College Teachers Do - Ken Bain

http://cedars.hku.hk/cope/0708/a/virtues.html - 6 Virtues and 24 Character Strengths

What are the purposes of an individual’s education?

the individual chooses his purposes when he can

the purposes of the parents may be many – but their only non-arguable purposes are to produce an individual who is able willing to take care of himself, able to produce viable off-spring, and able and willing to take care of the parents when they are no longer able to do so themselves

society’s purposes may be many – but their only non-arguable purposes are identical to those of the parents plus to produce an individual who will help to perpetuate the society

What are the content/ends of education?
• - values
• - habits
• - skills
• - knowledge
• - imagination
• - judgment (aka wisdom, common sense, etc.)
• - confidence
• - happiness

What if the secret to success is failure? - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general

Thoughts on education as of 091711

http://cedars.hku.hk/cope/0708/a/virtues.html - 6 Virtues and 24 Character Strengths

What are the purposes of an individual’s education?

the individual chooses his purposes when he can

the purposes of the parents may be many – but their only non-arguable purposes are to produce an individual who is able willing to take care of himself, able to produce viable off-spring, and able and willing to take care of the parents when they are no longer able to do so themselves

society’s purposes may be many – but their only non-arguable purposes are identical to those of the parents plus to produce an individual who will help to perpetuate the society

What are the content/ends of education?

values
habits
skills
knowledge
imagination
judgment (aka wisdom, common sense, etc.)
confidence
happiness

Bob's ranking of the sources of today's economic problems

1. Too many people
   
   
2. Too much misunderstood technology
   
   
3. Free trade - the Devil's work
   
   
4. Almost all politicians' uncontrolled mania for buying votes with whatever: medicare and medicaid, no downpayment housing, massive bailouts, et al. (Nothing new in politics, but the current mania steming primarily from LBJ the Antichrist.)
   
   
5. Regan's (and Thatcher's) disastrous adventures into deregulation (bring back Glass - Steagall et al. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act )
   
   
6. The Bushes

Bob's Life Rules

Be the best you can be.

Do unto others as you would be done unto.

Pay to those who follow the debts you owe to those who went before.

Smell the roses.

Bob's PGW list as of Sept. 2, 2011

PGW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.G.Wodehouse) was a hard working and widely published author for over 75 years. He wrote poems, songs, plays, scenarios, novels, short stories, essays, letters, and autobiography. There have been hundreds of books, articles, web sites, and TV items about him. New items continue to appear regularly. The below is Bob’s selective list.

Anthologies

1. What Ho! – Arrow Books

2. The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology by P. G. Wodehouse (Jun 19, 2007) – Everyman

3. The Wodehouse World of the Clergy

4. Wodehouse Is The Best Medicine

Story Collections

1. The World of Mr Mulliner (1972) – Two original stories (omnibus of all 40+2 stories)

2. The Golf Omnibus by P. G. Wodehouse (Mar 3, 1996)

3. The World of Jeeves

4. Tales from the Drones Club (1982) later The Drones Omnibus (1991)

Novels

1. A Damsel in Distress - 1919 A Damsel in Distress

2. Sam the Sudden - 1925 Sam in the Suburbs

3. Quick Service - 1940 Quick Service

4. Cocktail Time - 1958 Cocktail Time

5. Ice in the Bedroom - 1961 The Ice in the Bedroom

6. Hot Water

7. The Girl on the Boat

8. Bill the Conqueror

9. Big Money

Plus all the Jeeves, Blandings, and Uncle Fred Novels (“Cocktail Time", above, is the best of the Uncle Fred novels)

Article collections

1. Louder and Funnier 1932

2. http://www.thelooniverse.com/books/plum/plumarticles.html - an incomplete list containing 30 or so items

Biographical

1. Performing Flea - 1953 Author! Author! 1962 A collection of letters, with notes

2. Bring on the Girls! - 1954 Bring on the Girls! 1953 Semi-autobiographical stories, in collaboration

3. Over Seventy - 1957 America, I Like You 1956 Reminiscences and journalism

4. Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern: The Men Who Made Musical Comedy

5. P.G. WODEHOUSE: A Literary Biography by P.G.) Green, Benny (Wodehouse (1981)

6. http://www.letmewatchthis.ch/watch-1199121-PG-Wodehouse-The-Long-Exile (free download – one hour tv bio)

7. The World of P. G. Wodehouse – Herbert Warren Wind

Miscellaneous

1. The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse (Jan 26, 2004)

2. Who’s Who in Wodehouse – Daniel H. Garrison

3. JEEVES COCKTAIL BOOK by HUGH BREDIN (EDITOR) (1980)

4. All of Richard Usborne’s books on Wodehouse (5): Richard Alexander Usborne (16 May 1910 – 21 March 2006), or simply Dick Usborne, was a journalist and author. He is widely regarded as the leading scholar of the life and works of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975).

5. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3670407/Revelling-in-Wodehouseana.html <== Norman Murphy is one of the leading living PGW scholars

6. http://www.madameulalie.org/

7. http://www.terry-mordue.co.uk/Wodehouse/index.php

Movies, TV, audio

1. P. G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations by Brian Taves

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Damsel_in_Distress_(film)

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wodehouse_Playhouse - tv series

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeeves_and_Wooster - tv series

5. The Land Where the Good Songs Go - The Lyrics of P.G. Wodehouse - audio CD

Theater

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies, many of them produced in collaboration with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934), wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote lyrics to Sigmund Romberg's music for the Gershwin – Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928). He is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. [5] Songwriters Hall of Fame - http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/notable_writers/C5047

A good book on the topic is “Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern: The Men Who Made Musical Comedy”

2. The best of his musical comedies, and the most frequently produced, is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_Goes . Ghostlight Records' original cast recording of Anything Goes will be released for digital download on August 23, 2011. The disc will be available for purchase online and in stores as of September 20, 2011.

3. Probably the second most frequently produced is http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?r=1&res=990CE0D81F3DF933A25754C0A963958260&oref=slogin

4. The third probably is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh,Kay !

5. All of his lyrics are supposed to be in “The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse”

6. Some are available on audio - The Land Where the Good Songs Go - The Lyrics of P.G. Wodehouse by Hal Cazalet and Sylvia McNair (Audio CD - 2001)

7. “Bill” - http://www.allisoncrowe.com/Billlyrics.html

NB – the Broadway musical “Showboat” was originally staged in 1927 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Boat) - “Showboat” the film was originally made in 1929 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Boat_(1929_film)) by Universal and remade in 1936 (http://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Summaries/S/Show%20Boat%20(1936).htm). It was again remade by MGM in 1951 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Boat_(1951_film)). Most prefer the 1951 version – I recommend the 1936 version. Though Wikipedia credits Ava Gardner as singing “Bill” in the 1951 version, I have heard that, though Gardner’s singing is good, it was not good enough for MGM, and they dubbed the song – I don’t remember who it was, but it may have been Kathryn Grayson. As of August 2011 “Showboat” is again on the New York stage with multiple NYT reviews - one including a paragraph on “Bill” - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/nyregion/retooled-show-boat-stage-at-goodspeed-opera-house-review.html

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