Crank It Up

 

Created Equal: The Documentary

 

Don't miss Created Equal, the book of the same name by Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta. It is composed of the documentary's transcripts. 

An excerpt: My grandfather understood that education was the key because he didn't have it, and that's what had held him back. He wasn't going to let that happen to his boys. And he said that he went to third grade, but school was three months out of the year because you had to work. Education wasn't some social experiment. It wasn't a lot of this drivel you hear today. It was the key. It was something that had to be done. Reading, writing, arithmetic, and, by golly, you are going to learn it. You were never going to miss a day of school. And he made that very clear. Remember now, I am seven years old, my brother is six, and he says to us, "You are going to go to school every day. And if you are sick, you are still going, and if you die, you will go. I will take your body for three days and make sure you're not faking." And he meant it. The thing about it is, it's one thing if somebody says that and you think they're exaggerating. He wasn't that kind of guy. In your mind you knew he had laid down a marker. You were going to go dead or alive. Well or sick. And that's the way we went.

On My List

 

Find Something Beautiful Today

 

[Photo by Carol Highsmith's America at Unsplash]

Brothers in Arms

 

Serious Books on D-Day

• The Longest Day: D-Day June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
• Neptune I: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings by Craig L. Symonds
• Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings

[Photo by Barnaby at Unsplash]

Hmm

 

Perspective

 From English History, 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor

Never Forget

 

An Unnecessary Wall

 

I completely share Nicholas Bate's cogent concerns about PowerPoint.

It is a debilitating device that creates a rigid barrier between the presenter and the audience.

Long-time readers of this blog will know my preference for flip charts and overhead projectors. [I love those old projectors with the acetate roll that you can crank whenever a new page is needed.]

Both of those facilitate spontaneity and conversation.

With PowerPoint, the fancier it gets, the worse it is.

Nicholas is Old School with all of the virtues that implies and it's great to hear that we can expect another book from him in September.