We Are Not Sheep
A Last Thought on Our Fabled Election
I subscribe to the intelligent voter theory.
Every elector who has taken the care to register has done so because of his commitment to our republican way of life.
Every person who arrives to vote has vetted the candidates and come having made an intelligent choice.
To the Shepherd of His Flock
First, I pray I can lead as well as I write. Now I write.
It is late to be reaching out, but late is better than not at all, and the stakes are just too high. I write to request your assistance. I am, as you may or may not know, the Republican candidate for Mayor in Bridgeport.
My campaign is about G-d, Fatherhood and Family. It is about Truth. It is about liberal democratic values. It is about strengthening and restoring the great Republic left to us by our nation's founders.
On Motherhood
I was taken today with the complete adoration and joy that a mother expressed toward her child today.
I was at synagogue. Dad was holding their nine-month old daughter. Mom was just besotted with her child. This is as it should be.
I noted that this must be cognitive dissonance. I know the demands of a child this age: sleepless nights, constant care required. It is an enormous task to raise a child well.
A Vision for an Educational Community
This was written as an assignment in one of my teaching classes around 2006. I think the ideas are still solid, if not particularly practical to implement.
Vision for Educational Community
Our philosophy: The student should be responsible for his own participation, both in life and in school, to the extent there is any such formal institution. It is the older generation's job to facilitate innate learning processes and to provide exposure to new materials so that a student may continue the process of discovery throughout his life. If a child learns to love to read, he will naturally learn to read. He should be exposed to the beauty and application of math and science, and he will naturally look to the underlying principles and start to derive relevant knowledge for himself. If the community can move a child to be curious, think for himself and act upon his own inspiration, it has done its job. If he is inspired into action, he will need to communicate, and may even find it fun to communicate in English. It is my job to facilitate that communication.
To a Union Man
I would like your vote. I would love your whole union's vote. But to earn that, I must articulate a vision that would make me worthy of your trust.
The truth is my gut reaction when you say union is not a positive one. I think of the teachers we don't fire because it is just cheaper to have them sit their days out and get paid for staying away from students.
