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 The Joyful Mysteries

     BertsterMind was conceived in August 2005 while I was participating in a technology "boot camp" called Summercore. I wanted to learn how to develop and use the World Wide Web in my teaching. The project has been ongoing ever since then, and it keeps expanding, as you will discover if you rummage around in this site. This page is for my students at EHS and for anyone else who would like to see what's here. Most of what I have learned in my life has been outside the classroom; the classroom has always been a contact opportunity, and now we are longer limited to the time and place of class. Educational contact means a lot more than it used to.  There is only one essential difference between my students and me; I have more experience. Most of my students are smarter than I am, so I expect to learn more than anyone else in any class I teach. We have much to teach each other, and I hope this will help. From time to time I post student work. Probe whatever looks interesting, even if it's not a course you are presently taking.

     Here is something I believe very deeply: I love to think. I relish the "life of the mind." Our powers of reason are God's gift to us, but reason has its limits. Reason that refuses to recognize its own limits is by definition unreasonable. To be truly human, we must reach beyond reason and fall in love with the living God to whom reason has been pointing all along. So. . . we start to pray, and then everything changes!

     Email me at bertster@bertsermind.com with any thoughts or questions you may have. I'm interested!

--Bert Harrell, July 2008

Essays on Chaucer and John Donne by KATIE HERED, Class of 2008, together  form an excellent study on the relationship between man and woman.

VANESSA KOPPEL unpacks her new understanding of the human condition and explores some hard questions.