* “I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me sing and play the drums. It seems to fascinate people. I don’t know why.”

* “I have things that I am interested in, and that’s usually what comes out on the album.”

* “I would rather take a long time and make a record with eight or ten good songs on it than to rush one out with only one or two good songs on it, which is what I find to be the case most of the time.”

* “I’m always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I’ve got pieces of paper all over my house.”

(“Music” to the ears of an inveterate notetaker.)

Here’s my favorite…

* “I’m not scary, I’m just opinionated.”

Don Henley, via Wikipedia

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1. The human side of me wishes he could have been there in SA this week to ‘gather’ with y’all. The learning took place from a distance, but the human feature was a shade shy of what would have been there directly.

2. How many of our students consider the physical spaces of school/campus to be the only place they can be with their peers in F2F terms, formal ‘learning’ be damned:

“So I’m not here to learn anymore than I would normally. I”m here to be together. That’s good enough.”

Given how segmented our young populations are these days when it comes to home life, the pace of over-scheduling certain populations of kids when ‘out’ of school vs. those kids who have little access to fresh air save when in school, and the gold rush to virtual ‘relationships’ via MySpace, et al, is it no wonder that our kiddos today view the school campus as the one place they can just ‘hang’ (or ‘gather’, in adult terminology).

Perhaps that is yet another reason why they are reluctant to engage in formal ‘learning’ in school spaces.

Great piece, Dean. Glad that Chris hinted as such in his post today.

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