Margins in the Classroom

Backporch Education Podcast

Yet Another Farming Metaphor

Poem: from “The Church Porch” by George Herbert

When thou dost purpose aught, within thy power, Be sure to do it, though it be but small: Constancy knits the bones, and makes us stour / When wanton pleasures beckon us to thrall. Who breaks his own bond, forfeiteth himself: What nature made a ship, he makes a shelf.

Statement of the Whole: In agriculture, every farmer knows you need margins: spaces between your fields. The carefully planted crop needs some wildness, some weeds, some room about it to flourish. So goes the classroom as well. In this episode, Jason and Steve walk out into the fields to see what can be learned about the margins of the classroom. Put your boots on and come with us.