Category: Personal Essays
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Why America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous
Originally posted on WORDVIRUS: ? According to an op-ed by Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post, if Americans are united in any conviction these days, it is that we urgently need to shift the country’s education toward the teaching of specific, technical skills, expand STEM courses (science, technology, engineering and math) and deemphasize the humanities.…
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Stop waiting for an invitation to live your life
When I was 16, a boy I loved (who obviously did not love me), would disappear without a word, as he adventured off to weekend long music festivals. Later, he would return, apologize for not calling, and tell me all about his fun as if to rub it in. I desperately wanted to go be…
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Reblogged: Why?
Originally posted on Hiking the Hayduke Trail 2015: Counting on one hand the days until I go. I start hiking March 23rd, but I leave Seattle March 21st. (You must leave to go, and though they coexist always, leaving and going are different experiences. I’m still in the leaving, but the sense of going is…
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The Beauty of Teens
Originally posted on The Human Rights Warrior: Photo taken by (and used with permission from) my son Sevrin at his high school sailing team practice. As I write this, there are seven teens asleep in my basement. My son and his friends came back from their high school dance in high spirits last night. Laughing…
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The Internet: IT’S MADE OF PEOPLE
Just yesterday, a couple of my co-workers at the high school where I work were taking about how one of our students only had friends online and that it was a “fantasy world.” They both thought that the student should spend less time online. While I do think that it’s important for people to learn…
Trynia Kaufman 