{"id":32,"date":"2003-09-04T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2003\/09\/04\/32\/"},"modified":"2003-09-04T01:46:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T01:46:00","slug":"32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/32\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
Thoughts on My Ishmael<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Finished the third book in Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael series, My Ishmael<\/em>, this weekend, and literally found myself speechless at certain points. Quinn’s (or should I say Ishmael’s) arguments for “New Tribalism” are among the most provocative ideas I’ve seen in any of this series, and that’s certainly saying something. As a teacher, I was both disturbed at my own ability to recognize the malaise that Quinn describes in our educational system, and refreshed to realize my evergrowing frustration with that system isn’t a sign of laziness or delusions — made me think deeply about what I mean when I call myself a “teacher” (a label I much prefer to “professor”). I can’t imagine anyone in the political realm promoting anything a tenth as bold as the ideas in this book, so I guess it’s up to us common folk to promote these ideas, to “be B…”<\/p>\n I don’t have an account to sell books with any particular affiliate program, so I’ll just link to a site I know that sells books — buy it <\/a>and read it. So many things are called “life-changing”; this book is the genuine article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thoughts on My Ishmael Finished the third book in Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael series, My Ishmael, this weekend, and literally found myself speechless at certain points. Quinn’s (or should I say [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n