I am an educational expert, political theorist and a freelance writer.

For the record and for the readers of this blog, I hold a Master’s Degree in English from York University and a Doctorate in Education (Ed. D.) from the University of Toronto (OISE). I am a sixty-nine year old, visually impaired, retired, white, male, heterosexual elementary school administrator with 37 years of experience in education in Ontario. As I went through my career, I saw things each and every day that I felt needed to changed yet when I spoke out I found I was immediately silenced and ostracized by the traditional authoritarian educational system and those within it and branded a radical (which I am not). I am an intelligent, critically-thinking, open-minded individual who does not let the blinders of society or patriarchy interfere with my thoughts. I also am not afraid to put try to put my ideas into action unlike the current state of mind in the world as we know it. At all times, I spoke honestly, forthrightly and professionally in a fearless manner at times and was repeatedly rejected for promotion to Superintendent and isolated despite the fact that I was the most qualified candidate every time I went through the process – primarily I believe because I would have changed the system dramatically if I was promoted. It was wrong and an example in my own life of a horrendous abuse of authority. My ideas were rejected out-of-hand and the system is virtually unchanged from the time I entered it more than fifty years ago. I hope to address some of these issues in my blog. Many issues become one-sided as the agent controlling the debate whether the media or individuals constrict the discussion to create predetermined outcomes. This happens a lot. Over a nearly four-decade career in education and a similar period of academic study and research I gradually began to see that there was a pattern to everything and it all started to make sense. It all begins and ends with patriarchy.

I am one of the few people in education who can claim a forty-year professional career combined with the same amount of time in part-time academic study and reflection. This combination of theory and practice (praxis) gives my ideas theoretical strength and practical relevance. I am a well-informed expert in education, politics, economics, religion and gender-studies because of my life-long interest in the effects of patriarchy.