Years ago, one late May, I popped into Michael’s office when he was about to sign the seniors’ diplomas. It was quiet in Olympus; everyone else had left for the day. He told me that he had a system: he’d take each one in turn and consider, for a few long moments, that particular student–what […]
In English class we’re reading Galileo by Bertolt Brecht. During the book, Galileo’s assistant (a young student) is faced with the fact that the church will willingly reject knowledge in order to maintain the facts about the universe that they have preached for the past two thousand years. To Andrea (the assistant) this comes as an unbelievable […]