When i found the following i couldn't click on 'New Post' fast enough to share my enjoyment. After posting Didn't Mr. Delano call this a virtue?, Janae posted a comment that took me back 10 years and i also realized half of America has no idea what or who i was referring to, so i decided to do a little investigation and I found these websites!
The Delano Code of Law and The Life of Virtue
For those of you who don't know who Mr. Delano is - At Coalinga High he was our Ethics/American Government teacher who took on the role as mentor and overprotective father figure. Either you loved him or you hated him but either way you respected the man. He challenged the ones that would challenge back and pushed him thumb down on the losers. Every day (no exceptions, even in his absence) we would have to recite loudly The Delano Code of Law. Sidenote: I think some lines have changed since we were in school (any opinions). In one class we would write bi-monthly essay responses to an article written by Aristotle or some controversial issue regarding ethics and mankind. Eighty percent of the school hated writing them but i am not ashamed to say i enjoyed being analytical and controversial in my writings and in his class - i wish more people were. I understand some people never agreed with his intentions and didn't like his classes but even if you didn't you have to admit he is the only person in that school that provoked you to think...on your own!
Update: Mr Delano has published a book called The Delano Code: The Only way Out.
3 comments:
Seriously, that man could drive me up the wall...but at the end of the day, he was the ONLY teacher who expected us to see beyond our comfortable walls in which we lived! He forced us to reckon with the likes of Plato and Aristotle and become familiar with philosophies and thoughts that we never would have known otherwise. I have to say that he provoked much controversy and analytical thought that has continued to form our boundaries, or lack thereof! No matter what one's personal issues are or are not with Mr. Delano, he truly did give us more credit than anyone else in trusting our minds to be let loose into the great unknown!
No matter how you feel/felt about him, those are good basic laws to live your life by.
Dusty
P.S. so I used your little tags to look up his book and read some excerpts and pages...pretty profound! I feel like we cheated ourselves by being introduced to it when we were too young to appreciate it in its fullness!
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