Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go
Child Free | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Child Liberation | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Parent Dictated Education | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Parenting | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
A Rule is to Break
Simply celebrating childhood: the joy, the wonder of discovery, the spontaneity, and strong emotions Wild Child is free to do as she pleases. <i>A Rule Is To Break: A Child's Guide to Anarchy</i> follows Wild Child as she learns about just being herself and how that translates into kid autonomy. It presents the ideas of challenging societal expectations and tradition and expressing yourself freely in kid-terms that are both funny and thought provoking—it even functions as a guidebook for adults to understand what it is to be a critically thinking, creative individual. Wild Child is <i>the</i> role model for disobedience that is sometimes civil.<br><br> Mostly pictures (that are cute!) and a little text, and looks good, but don't expect much of a lesson in real anarchy! For ages 4 and up!
Writing Is Thinking
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, n…
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ school choice for her daughter sparks a debate over Black parents, education and sacrifice
Nikole Hannah-Jones's reflection on her daughter’s public school education sparks a larger debate about Black parents, opportunity and community.
The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not only allows us to convey our ideas, but the very act forces us to test and distill them — at once making our ideas more robust while providing the vehicle by which to share them.
