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When Compromise Means Defending the Indefensible, It’s Time to Embrace Our Idealism
Posted on Feb. 7, 2011 by zoeweil

In this post the author is stating that idealism is declining and it is so important to not let this happen.The author states that "Without idealists who envision a safer, saner, more equitable world and who are willing to work toward it, the fate of billions of people, animals, and the ecosystems upon which we all depend, would be far worse." The author says we need to embrace the ideas of idealism in children because they are our future.

My comment was that the world needs more idealists because without these people who stand up for what they believe in our Nation would be lost. The writer is absolutely correct it is time for all of us to embrace the idealist within and refuse to succumb to the messages that would keep us inert. It is not wrong to think realistically about certain issues but for others sometimes you need to go outside the box. Embrace the ideas of others around you, in other words don't go with the flow. This was a very interesting topic and I enjoyed reading it.

Steve Miranda's: My Little Experiment, and the Remarkable Data it Produced.
Posted Jan. 30, 2011

In this post Mr. Miranda is commenting on how little children care these days about how well they may or may not be doing in his class. He is stating that children see their grades, their letter grades and then basically throw their papers away without reading any of his comments that he made on the paper. Mr. Miranda makes comments to improve their grades further but none of them take the time to read the comments.

My comment was that students are taught to make good grades so therefore this is all they truly care about at the end of the day. Writing line by line feedback is clearly not so important in the early stages of schooling. Think about it, if you made an "A" on a paper would you bother looking further into it to see what you could've improved? This was a really interesting blog and I enjoyed reading it and found the information very useful.