Laura Forish, American School of Paris

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life. (Henry David Thoreau, Walden)

As practicing teachers, do we even have time for a walk in the woods, let alone living in the woods? Do we reflect on our days? Why did this lesson work well while that one flopped? Or do we ascribe the reasons to the upcoming dance, the bad weather, or the phases of the moon? Read more »