Coach Bill / Dad, Entrepreneur Special Educator, American Political Scientist, Writer, Musician.

How does a teacher create understanding that leads to empowerment in his or her students? What can be done to impart value on the urgency of seizing the moments we call hours and days?   Why should new generations of students care enough to make themselves mighty? Where are the Frederick Douglass’s of our time? Are we not them? Is the time of greatness past? What needs to be instilled to create champions out of ourselves? Is it so that modern culture anticipates and downplays the rise of our greatness, switching it for a commercialized version of human achievement and performance?  Can it be so that we are oppressed, and don’t even know it? What is a critical thinker and why are they so valuable to society?  What are critical thinkers capable of producing?  How do we teach critical thinking? …………………………….. The numbering of the above questions was not done in reverse of importance, but in reverse of impact to your intellectual digestion of the ...

A Vision for A New Era of Empathy in America Posted by  COACHBILL007   on   DECEMBER 4, 2017 EDIT Children and adults who grow up in a society were life is wholeheartedly valued would benefit from a new social compact. The changing of culture from base and immoral, towards greater degrees of respect, decency and valuing of human dignity is needful. I see a land where women are treated with respect and esteemed for their intellects. I see a land where men live according to the highest ideals God intended for them. I see a land were women are reverenced and built up to be critical thinking leaders, more so than they are now, and I see a land were boys and girls are taught to respect how life is formed and cared for from the moment of conception to the moment of age-old death. A people who no longer kill themselves at the moment of their formation are a people who begin to think about everything else in their life differently, even how they govern each oth...

We put our congressional leaders in power so that they carry out the legislative agenda they campaigned on. They get elected based on this understanding, go on to the U.S. capitol and are supposed to work for us, the people. They go on to talk emphatically on the floor of the senate and house of representatives. Then it happens… nothing begins to happen. The pressing issues that beset the United States of America stand still. The conversation changes and the supposedly well-respected news media corporate outlets happily oblige in changing the conversation. Time passes. Nothing happens. The people are quietly told that it is not easy, that it takes time, that perhaps the congressional leaders know things we do not about getting the priority issues enacted and so, it may take a much longer time than was promised under the momentum of the campaign. In fact, it may take the congressionally-elected leader his entire career. ‘But not to worry, they are fighting the good fight!’ ‘Go Team U...

“A vision is best taken on by the culture of a people when it is not forced,” I say to Fidel. In Spanish, they told the two young teenage sisters to take off all their clothes. The two girls refused. A standoff ensued at the Jose Marti International Airport in Cuba.The authorities said they needed to check if they were carrying ‘contraband.’  Their mother and father had looked to get them on a flight out of the country after the new, ruling leadership had ordered these girls and many others to work in the sugar cane fields under the Cuban sun. The girls were adamant in their position and refused to comply. Anything could have happened at that moment. Ultimately, the authorities relented and allowed the young girls to board the flight to American soil.  My maternal grandfather and grand uncle had a thriving law practice in La Habana. Life was good for my family but it came to an abrupt end when Fidel Castro and his band of visionary rebels forcibly took over ...