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I Never Graduated …

June 10th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards

I Never Graduated Kindergarten

I never graduated from preschool. I never graduated from kindergarten. I didn’t graduate from any of the elementary school grades.

Back when and where I went to school, after your sixth grade year, you attended “junior high school,” not “middle school.” I made the transition from grade school to junior high but … I didn’t graduate.

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The Way History is Taught Ought To Be History

March 13th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards

 

The Way History is Taught Ought To Be History

 

If you’re like most people, you hated history class. The names, the dates, the strange places, the seeming irrelevance of it all …

Now me, I was one of those kids who actually enjoyed history class. I was fascinated by ancient cultures, human behavior, what has gone before. I’d often sit in class reading ahead in the book or, on my own time, reading in greater depth about that which was being taught. I still enjoy history, considering it as good if not more entertaining than fiction … not that I manage to retain much more than a general sense of what I consume but the minutiae of the past continue to fascinate me.

So, knowing that about me, allow me the heresy of stating that history, as typically taught, is a great waste of time.

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Interesting Conversations

September 4th, 2008 by Corey A. Edwards


I had an odd and surprising exchange with my boss today regarding what constitutes an animal.

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