Here is the serious stuff

• Course Materials and research.
• Adolescence and Education Series. With a brand new one!
• Some thoughts from Abraham Maslow? Please have a look. They're wonderful.
• A few aphorisms from Gore Vidal.
• Passages from Jerome Bruner's The Culture of Education and Acts of Meaning.
• Passages from Alfred Schutz's On Phenomenology and Social Relations.
• William Faulkner's Speech of Acceptance upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• Passages from Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice.
• Passages from Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate.
• Thomas Kuhn. Includes links, outline of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
• Observations from

Tennessee Williams	Cobbet	Cavell and Habermas
Jerome Bruner	Montaigne	Teilhard de Chardin
Carl Jung	Carol Gilligan	Virginia Woolf
Voltaire	Charles Bukowski	Emerson
Dewey	Vladimir Mayakovsky	Goethe
Kant	Little Prince Toy Store	Havel
Freud	Nichomachean Ethics	Maslow
Darwin	Ludwig Wittgenstein	Ammons
Al Bandura	Baltasar Gracián	Lee Cronbach
Ortega y Gasset	Cole Porter	Lawrence Blum
Frank Lloyd Wright	Cioran	Augusto Monterroso

• Baltasar Gracián's Arte de Prudencia. A labor of love in progress.
• Poetry, anyone? cummings? Eliot? Neruda? Kunitz? Garcia Lorca? Bukowski? the Tao? Larson?
• Lyrics from ballads by Joan Manuel Serrat (in Spanish).
• A tango or two (in Spanish) - Discépolo's Cambalache and Gardel and Le Pera's Volver.
• The Waters of March.
• Sometimes I don't know what to do with certain words, so I keep them in a word attic.
• Carved on a cathedral wall by a stonecutter during the Middle Ages.

Here is the important stuff

• Had a manuscript or two rejected? Don't despair. See this.
  Have a look at Umberto Eco's description of how an editor first reacted
  • to the Bible,
  • to Immanuel Kant,
  • to Kafka,
  • and to James Joyce.
  • Here is the mother of all rejection slips.
  • And a typical exchange between author and editor.
• But they did not give up! Testaments to persistence and perseverance.
• So you think it's impossible, eh?
• Casablanca, anyone? Read, see, and hear. But ...
• So you know, my mind belongs to this film. And my heart to this one. Well, ok ... this one too.
• But why stop there? Here are all my favorite films.
• What the heck. Let's do the Books.
• And here is the best photographer, ever!
• Freud in Art.
• Answer Bernard Pivot's 10 questions from Bouillon de Culture.
• Some pithy Reflections on Education. Pick a date; get an aphorism!
• Here's the fate that should befall most psychologists.
• For Graduate Students everywhere.
• Some stories.
  • A memorable teacher.
  • A memorable experience.
• Daily Affirmations for Professors.
• George Carlin on football and baseball..
• Here is a really good Optical Illusion.
• Why Ask Why?
• For teachers and professors, gentle ways to create an intellectual climate in your classroom.
• Bart Simpson . . . "I am not deliciously saucy" and other punishments.
• A few thoughts on children.
• Meet a friend and confidant.
• Would you like to know love's function?
• You were wondering what could possibly be better than wisdom?
• The last one . . . for now.
• And here is the wisest thing I know.
• Sadness.
• A parting wish for you.
• Yes, we do, and No, we don't.
• And don't forget.
• A closing thought from Baltasar Gracián.
• But the last word belongs to Jardiel Poncela.