I recently have heard of people organizing their books by jacket color. Great for displaying in the background of Zoom calls. Mine are sadly in cardboard boxes 📦 😅
You taught me a new word today - Tsundoku. I thought it was going to be some sort of board game. I often wince when I look at my unread books and then talk myself out of buying new ones but Taleb's Anti-Library and this new word you introduced me to give me a sense of peace. Thank you!
To engage with Bruce's proposition, I'm not sure that simply giving teachers back the ability to function as the "cop" is the right move. As the parent of a sometimes challenging child, we've done a lot of work with our teachers to help educate them on why challenging behaviors occur and how to best resolve them. Most teachers I've met have never heard of many of the suggestions and tactics we try and bring into our son's classroom. And though he has ASD, these same suggestions work to support any child. I'd argue more and better quality training and support is more valuable than returning an ability to be a "cop" in the classroom.
I understand there are extreme examples on both sides of that discussion. Just wanted to offer my perspective as a parent (granted a young parent and a very involved one)
Tsundoku is definitely a thing to be embraced. My book collection is split between my place (mostly recent additions), my mom's place (mostly college era academic books and Sci-Fi) and my office (novels I read ages ago and some non fiction). Even though there's absolutely no cataloguing or shelving system involved, I can say with absolute certainty where a particular title is, even when they migrate between the three locations or are lent to someone
I recently have heard of people organizing their books by jacket color. Great for displaying in the background of Zoom calls. Mine are sadly in cardboard boxes 📦 😅
You taught me a new word today - Tsundoku. I thought it was going to be some sort of board game. I often wince when I look at my unread books and then talk myself out of buying new ones but Taleb's Anti-Library and this new word you introduced me to give me a sense of peace. Thank you!
Great issue Charlie.
To engage with Bruce's proposition, I'm not sure that simply giving teachers back the ability to function as the "cop" is the right move. As the parent of a sometimes challenging child, we've done a lot of work with our teachers to help educate them on why challenging behaviors occur and how to best resolve them. Most teachers I've met have never heard of many of the suggestions and tactics we try and bring into our son's classroom. And though he has ASD, these same suggestions work to support any child. I'd argue more and better quality training and support is more valuable than returning an ability to be a "cop" in the classroom.
I understand there are extreme examples on both sides of that discussion. Just wanted to offer my perspective as a parent (granted a young parent and a very involved one)
Tsundoku is definitely a thing to be embraced. My book collection is split between my place (mostly recent additions), my mom's place (mostly college era academic books and Sci-Fi) and my office (novels I read ages ago and some non fiction). Even though there's absolutely no cataloguing or shelving system involved, I can say with absolute certainty where a particular title is, even when they migrate between the three locations or are lent to someone