This is my attempt to use baking bread as a vehicle to show how I learn, teach, and work in Mississippi education.
Bread is elemental, consisting of four ingredients, mixed, fermented and baked. People have been gathering seeds and grains and ground them into flour for millennia. I imagine people convened around a stone, grinding flour, using some kind of vessel to mix the flour and water to create a paste and then cooking that paste over fire on hot stones. Once cooked, they ate the unleavened bread around the fire and talked. These interactions, communications, huddled around a fire eating, and talking may have been the first classroom.
Bread is elemental, consisting of four ingredients, mixed, fermented and baked. People have been gathering seeds and grains and ground them into flour for millennia. I imagine people convened around a stone, grinding flour, using some kind of vessel to mix the flour and water to create a paste and then cooking that paste over fire on hot stones. Once cooked, they ate the unleavened bread around the fire and talked. These interactions, communications, huddled around a fire eating, and talking may have been the first classroom.
Wheat field photo credit: Barton Chronicle, Bethany Dunbar. https://bartonchronicle.com/tag/butterworks-farm/