Stones of Erasmus — for Teachers, Writers, & Philosophy Sprinkles Makers!

Hi, I’m Greig — welcome! Here you’ll find sharp writing, creative ideas, and standout resources for teaching, thinking, making, and dreaming in the middle and high school ELA and Humanities classroom (Grades 6–12).

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30.10.11

Joyce Carol Oates at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

Joyce Carol Oates (image source: Jewish Week ) Lois Oppenheim Interviews Joyce Carol Oates As far as inimitable serious novelists go, Joyc...

21.10.11

Blaise Pascal On The Contradictory Nature of Human Beings

What follows is a short analysis of fragments 164, 19, 142, and 80 from Blaise Pascal's philosophical work Pensées . “What a chime...

26.9.11

Turning the Page to Proust

19.9.11

Journal & Rant: Eating Dinner at the Lan Café

One night in the East Village for dinner I ate at the Lan Café with some friends. YouTube Video Eating Dinner at Lan Café The san...

13.9.11

Teaching: On Whether It Matters If Students Care

Teachers do care about whether or not their students care. I hear teachers say: "My students just don't care. They come to clas...

8.9.11

Story of a Vocation: There and Back Again

A Story from My Fifteen Year Old Self I was fifteen years old: naive, mischievous and lonely, awkward with my body, my voice ~ and my w...

28.8.11

Quote from Auntie Mame: "Life's a Banquet"

Rosalind Russel as Auntie Mame (1958) Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death. ~Auntie Mame What is so ...

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