Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life.
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“With an amazingly useful way of thinking and acting, Most Good, Least Harm is multi-faceted in its utility….The innovation in this book is…spreading a message of being socially, politically, and environmentally conscious when making decisions.”
~ Jordan Dacayanan, Sacramento Book Review
My husband is a veterinarian, and the clinic where he works is where the strays in our county are brought, and where they remain for two weeks in the hopes that their families will find them. Elsie was one such dog, and when her two weeks were up, she was ready to be sent to [...]
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Once again, an op-ed writer has created another false either/or about education. In “Critical Thinking? You need knowledge” Diane Ravitch argues against what she describes as faddish efforts to teach critical thinking and cooperative learning in schools. She writes: this “skill-centered, knowledge-free education has never worked.” Personally, after 25 years in education (and alternative education [...]
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On September 20, I had the opportunity to meet Jane Goodall. One of our M.Ed. students, Shawn Sweeney, who works for Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots program, organized the annual Roots and Shoots Day of Peace celebration and parade in New York and invited me to share some thoughts before Jane Goodall gave her presentation. [...]
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Just as John Mackey’s statements about health care reform in the Wall Street Journal caused a firestorm of criticism that sparked what I consider to be a misguided boycott of Whole Foods by many on the left (see my blog posts here and here), now the right has caused the resignation of Van Jones as [...]
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We’re in the midst of a month-long MOGO Online course at the Institute for Humane Education. There are 40 wonderful people in the course inquiring, introspecting, and attempting to live their lives with greater integrity. We have an Online Commons where we share our experiences of each day’s exercise. During the first week, one of [...]
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An article in the September-October issue of Harvard Magazine begins, “For all the hand-wringing over their failure to amass savings, Americans may actually be too disciplined.” The article explores the research of Anat Keinan , a professor at Harvard Business School, which reveals that Americans are often too productivity-obsessed, “viewing pleasurable pastimes as wasteful, irresponsible, [...]
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One of the Institute for Humane Education’s M.Ed. students, Sophia Erlsten, spent several weeks in Trinidad this summer, and recounted a challenging situation she faced. Her family had rented a house on the beach. On the night of their arrival, her father took her to where a leatherback turtle had arrived to lay her eggs. [...]
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