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I love Dr. Seuss. There is a quality in his writing that finds a balance. Yes, we can say what we think, but in his writing he also writes about the need for kindness, loving those around us, and accepting we are all different.
Where else could we find a cat in the hat who carries a fish around in a small bowl, not having him/her for lunch? I am not sure if it is a girl or boy fish. Does it matter? I think not. Where else would we find Whoville where we explore who we are alongside fictional characters and others we live with? We discover there that we need those differences. They make us special and unique.
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About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
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Love this post, Ivon! Dr. Seuss sure knew how to wrap up life and tie it with golden bows. 🙂
He did. He did. Yes, he did. That is as close as I can get to his brilliance. He was very interested in social justice before it was a topical issue.
Dr. Seuss is one of my favorites! Even the smallest who or person makes a difference.
We do. We do. Oh, yes we do.
We need a modern day Dr Seuss for adults to get the same message across that there is a
need for kindness, loving those around us, and accepting we are all different, that he does for children. No other species destroys itself as readily as we do and it’s time for change.
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Beautifully said David. Thank you for a wonderful comment. Maybe we cannot have one Dr. Seuss. It might an amalgam of comments such as that wil do the trick.
My favorite was the Butter Battle that taught wars were silly. Fighting over how you butter bread which is basically what war is all about. Something that can be easy talked about and solved.
If adults thought through the their minds as children, would we have wars?
A question that could be debate. The glass may be half full and half empty to some. Some children think selfishly others share. Some are agressive some passive. Yet most just want to play and they usually play at what they see and were taught. Adults who promote war and distruction once thought as children. An endless cycle.
It seems to be. It would be interesting to know if our supposed leaders, political and otherwise, were sharers as children.
These canidates are surely acting like children.
Even worse than children as children will listen.
True and I don’t think children are so vain either.
The probably are not.
An interesting idea. Wonder if the government would provide a grant for that study?
That is a good thought.
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
MORE DOCTOR SEUSS ON THE LOOSE???
Thank you for the re-blog Jonathan. I mentioned to David at https://barsetshirediaries.wordpress.com/ that we might need an amalgam of people to be a modern Dr. Seuss. You help the proces with your rhyming.
Be glad to help…but I gotta tone down the high-faluting vocabulary!
Maybe Dr. Seuss was using high-faluting vocabulary.
😀 Not in RED SHOE, BLUE SHOE!