
What My Mother’s Beanie Babies Taught Me About Teaching
My mother was not your typical 1990s Beanie Babies collector. She didn’t care whether the little pellet-filled critters that she
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“I want to cultivate the capacity for second thoughts, by which I mean the stance and the competence that makes it feasible to inquire into the obvious. This is what I call learning.”
—Ivan Illich, “Ascesis”

My mother was not your typical 1990s Beanie Babies collector. She didn’t care whether the little pellet-filled critters that she

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