Poetry

Darkness and Light

What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills. Here's the TEDx Denver version of the talk Grant Lichtman gave at…

12 years ago

My First and Last Poppy: Evermore and Nevermore

In Memory of Lance Corporal Frank Herbert Sims. Royal Army Medical Corps who died on 28 January 1919 Age 34 Son…

12 years ago

“Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power!”

Children: How will they ever know who they are? The question is the last line of  "The Things we Steal…

14 years ago

The Possible’s Slow Fuse

Wisdom and inspiration from Emily Dickinson: The gleam of an heroic Act Such strange illumination The Possible's slow fuse is…

14 years ago

Show an Affirming Flame: It’s Not The Real World and That’s a Good Thing

On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…

15 years ago

Praising the Beast

We asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large, so terrifying, and…

15 years ago

Why give homework?

Every year at the annual Eagle Society poetry reading a lower school student demonstrates that s/he has spent homework time…

15 years ago

Stephen Colbert hears the Mermaids

What's the difference between a metaphor and lying? With a president who reads Derek Walcott and quotes June Jordan it's…

16 years ago

“Stony the road we trod” The inauguration of President Barak Obama

PDS marked the inauguration at its Peacemakers Assembly on Tuesday.  Entitled "Stony the road we trod" the event began with…

16 years ago

In the microscope

PDS has new science laboratories. Time for a poem from the Czech poet-scientist Miroslav Holub. In the Microscope Here too…

16 years ago