The Heart of Education
I have a very good friend who was a joyous and unrepentant English Major. Lance can read Conrad or Kipling or any of a hundred Masters of...
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How does one define Experiential Education?
Of course it's the education that one gets from the varying experiences of life. It is the education that an infant gets when she her...
An Enterprising Education
I had a great education in high school. Really. I wrote Star Trek stories in Algebra. I began the year in class by actually paying...
Why Educate by Building Wooden Boats? By Lance R. Lee
he arts and craftsmanship are of high cultural value for a single reason. They inspire. Such inspiration is not an accident; it is the...
The Strangest Dream
Bedtime. As I put down my precious child for the night I think, and far too often these days since he joined us in the world, what do I...
Lessons from a Car Wash
I hear a lot of negativity these days about youth. Lazy. That comes up a lot. Don't want to work. Don't know how to work. Yet I wonder...
The Work of Ambassadors
If there exists a universal language in the world today I would have to identify it as hard work. Work, the sort that raises a sweat and...
Hard Work
Skill, by its very nature, breeds decisiveness. There is a depth in the human condition that we of the 21st century are losing. It is the...
The Lid
Skill, by its very nature, breeds decisiveness. I bought a small crock for sugar a while ago. It was perfect except that it didn't have a...
Decisiveness
Skill, by its very nature, breeds decisiveness. I had the privilege yesterday of being near the window on Main Street when I heard the...
A Sledding Party
We had a sledding party in Station Maine today. It was a snap decision that we had scheduled months ago. Really. I had been promising the...
The "Doing Risk"
Doing can be a threat. After all, it's not until you try something that you actually find out how bad you are at it. Skills take time to...
Racing Season
Station Maine’s racing season got off to a rocky start this year. Only four of the nine rowers who we expected to race with the Seals...
Working Together
It’s become pretty well known by now that you can always find the Station Maine kids where the work’s being done. Look for the boat that...
The Push-Up Challenge
It was a great moment for Cameron. He completed ten “man’s” push-ups. Cameron had come to rowing from soccer. He was a good athlete. He...
Hope for the Future
The island of Vinalhaven has three new wind turbines. They have chosen as a community to be independent of the fossil driven power of the...
Dance Pages
I had the privilege once of interviewing the then editor of the New York based magazine Dance Pages. This amazing man had worked his way...
The Seagull
We saw something wonderful in Juniors Rowing Camp. We saw a seagull eating a fish. Just eating. The fish was all of three pounds. There...
The Role of Education
Over dinner with a friend yesterday, I mentioned by way of conversation that Rockland Middle School eighth graders are getting Social...
Investment in Learning
I learned something about teaching today. It was the end of a really good row, one of the pretty days when the sea sparkled and everyone...