Peter Glassman

Vancouver, Canada

Dr. Peter J. Glassman is an educator and author who has worked extensively in early childhood, elementary, and post-secondary education in North America, Europe, and Asia. He is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. Peter is the author of four books, and numerous essays on human creativity and society. He received his BA, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Mar 01

Education Revolution

  Broken hands on broken ploughs, Broken treaties, broken vows, Broken pipes, broken tools, People bending broken rules. Hound dog howling, bull frog croaking, Everything is broken.      – Bob Dylan, “Everything Is Broken” State of Emergency Few of the authorities who write, speak, advocate, and lobby on behalf of ideologies about education or improvements …

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Feb 09

What Children Need – Part 2

You fathers and you mothers Be good to one another Please try to raise your children right Don’t let the darkness take ‘em Don’t make ’em feel forsaken Just lead them safely to the light – Billy Joe Shaver, “Live Forever” In my work with preschools, schools, and universities, young people of all ages tell …

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Feb 06

The Mandatory Mercy of Goldman Sachs

You have many contacts Among the lumberjacks To get you facts When someone attacks your imagination But nobody has any respect Anyway they already expect you To just give a check To tax-deductible charity organizations      – Bob Dylan, “Ballad of a Thin Man”   The horrid, big, rich scoundrel.       – Anthony Trollope, The …

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Feb 03

What Children Need – Part 1

 – I am, a stride at a time.  [James Joyce, Ulysses] For more than forty years, I have taught literature, history, consciousness, and writing as a senior teacher and administrator in schools and universities.  In the context of these profound and elemental fields of learning, students of all ages often have confided in me with …

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Feb 03

U.S. Relief Command

The recent events in Haiti demonstrate that the United States must develop a new Military Relief Command.  The U.S. Relief Command should be modeled on the Marine Corps:  an essentially autonomous, highly trained, pre-equipped rapid response body that swiftly can deliver and operate anywhere in the world: Emergency food, water, shelter, and sanitation supplies Earth-moving equipment …

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Feb 03

Lead From The Heart

“Which way am I heading? President Obama is a brilliant man, but he delivered a banal State of the Union address last week.  It was a speech shrouded in shrill anger, tedious sloganeering, tendentious posturing.  It was a performance rooted in ritualistic tilts, nods, bobs, weaves.  Our president sounded tired, and looked defeated.  In a …

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Feb 03

Ecole Haiti

  The terrible tragedy in Haiti cannot be accepted, and it cannot be redeemed.  The only use the tragedy can have, the only gift it can confer, will be if the calamity leads to fundamental change in the people’s consciousness, capability, and control of their nation.  This can only occur only from upon a platform of universal, …

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Dec 19

Signs of the Times

  – There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another.  [Thomas Carlyle]    In 1829, a young man from Scotland published an essay entitled Signs of the Times.  Carlyle was unknown, and seemingly ill-equipped for consequence or celebrity.  Yet the essay seemed to all who read it …

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