Peter Berger: Portrait of a paradigm

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Peter Berger, an English teacher at Weathersfield School who writes “Poor Elijah’s Almanack.” The column appears in several publications including the Times Argus, the Rutland Herald and the Stowe Reporter.
I first learned about paradigms at a teacher workshop in the 1990s. We were watching a video about how schools needed to entirely derange themselves for the 21st century. It was narrated by an eerie sounding, condescending expert wh