From the monthly archives:

November 2003

On Discipline

24 November 2003

Almost a month ago, a group of Chinese acrobats came to Nassau and performed for Bahamian audiences. There were sixteen of them. Their average age was twelve; and they held their Bahamian audiences spellbound with their feats. One night — the last night of the run, as is typical of performances in Nassau — the [...]

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On Slavery

17 November 2003

Well, there’s a dirty word for you. Slavery — something that we would like to forget, or to deny, or to lock down in our history books and sanitize forever. We really don’t like to talk about it. At all. But we need to talk about it. Because even though it was abolished in 1834, [...]

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On Mediocrity

3 November 2003

When I was a high school teacher, the thing that shocked me more than anything wasn’t the rudeness of the students, the wildness of their lifestyles, or the paycheck, or anything that people suggested would shock me. What really shocked me was the fact that I taught students — bright, articulate students — whose aim [...]

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