1. The difference between a Doctor of Education and a PhD holder is that the former believes it is appropriate to quote Sandberg’s Lean In at a graduation ceremony while the latter disagrees and rolls his or her eyes.
2. One should never lose faith in humanity. When the President started sharing what sounded like a soppy ultra-patriotic story, I got scared. I needent have worried, though. The President is not an idiot and had not spent the last 20 years defending public education in state legislature for nothing. The story was neither soppy nor patriotic.
3. I can’t count in any language other than Russian. For some reason, the mathematical and the linguistic part of my brain do not connect. I also can’t count silently. So I had to count students in loud Russian, scaring them out of their wits.
4. Apparently, there is now a new tradition to wear the most outrageous shoes under the graduation robes. The part of the ceremony where students walk up for their diplomas looked like a shoe fashion show.
5. I’m now very tired and will spend the next 2 days in bed with a strawberry yoghurt mask and a book by Paul Ricoeur.
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I don’t remember Sandburg’s Lean In. I do remember that Sandburg was a close friend of the father of a close friend of mine.
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I meant this book: http://www.amazon.com/Lean-In-Women-Work-Will/dp/0385349947/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367717600&sr=8-1&keywords=lean+in
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Sorry. It did not occur to me that ‘Sandburg’ with no first name given could mean anyone except Carl Sandburg.
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I wouldn’t mind in the least if she had quoted Carl Sandburg! It would have made sense, too, because I think he was from Illinois.
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Shoes, here it is multicolored converse shoes.
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I’m starting to understand that there are places compared to which we are quite sophisticated. 🙂
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