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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com
“Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you;
but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.”

Kohler School District | Sheboygan County Wisconsin

 

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August 09 - August 15
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  • 09
    09.August.Sunday
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    Mendelssohn Violin Concerto E minor

    All day
    2026.08.09

  • 10
    10.August.Monday

    Language 300 & Received Pronunciation

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.10

    “He who does not speak foreign languages
    knows nothing about his own.“

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

     

    “The Tower of Babel” 1563 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder

     

    Here’s a rough breakdown of the top languages on the web:

    English: 55.4% – Russian: 6.6% – Japanese: 5.4% – Spanish: 5.2% – Chinese: 4.6%

     

    One of the most contentious aspects of best practice discovery and promulgation in any domain, and no less so in educational settlements, is an agreed-upon vocabulary and shared understanding.  As we explain elsewhere in this history, when a counter-party disagrees with you, he simply switches out the vocabulary — i.e. changes definitions or adds or subtracts from the traditional meanings of things.  So we approach this topic several times a year to confirm our bearing on the meaning of things.

    We begin 2025 by breaking down this topic into four sections

    Language 100: Survey of vocabulary in the standards catalogs relevant to building and managing education settlement real assets; including legal terms.

    Language 200: Electrotechnology standard catalogs; including computer programming languages.

    Language 300: The English as the language of science and innovation; the birthplace of computing and programming, the internet’s native tongue, standardization & open source development; etc.

    Language 400: Reserved.  Received Pronunciation

    RE: National Debate and Speech Association

    https://youtube.com/shorts/JGyuv9MLxJg?si=Cq2P5TX9N8S7rMHh

     


    We observe National Poetry Month (April) in the United States and Canada every year with an inquiry into changes in the (meaning of) definitions at the foundation of best practice literature; frequently the subject of sporty debate among experts writing codes and standards for the built environment of education communities.

    In the United Kingdom, National Poetry Month is celebrated in October, and it is known as “National Poetry Day” which has been observed since 1994. It is an initiative of the Forward Arts Foundation, which aims to encourage people to read, write and perform poetry.

    Other countries also have their own poetry celebrations, such as World Poetry Day, which is observed annually on March 21 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide.

    In past years we used a Tamil mnemonic because Tamil is the oldest surviving language and remains the spoken language of 80-odd million people of South Asia.  Alas, use of Tamil confounds our Wordpress content management system so in 2024 we began coding this topic in American English

    https://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/

    Health 400 | OB-GYN

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.10

     

    With emphasis on OB-GYN because educational settlements are where families begin and grow among the young.

    Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue.   We periodically scan public consultations for literature that sets the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises in education communities.

  • 11
    11.August.Tuesday

    NESC & NEC Crosswalk

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.11

    NESC & NEC Crosswalk | Lorem ipsum

  • 12
    12.August.Wednesday

    Total Solar Eclipse

    All day
    2026.08.12

    Total Solar Eclipse

    Special Education

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.12

    Special Education Facility Standards

  • 13
    13.August.Thursday

    Air Conditioning

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.08.13

    https://standardsmichigan.com/acca-air-conditioning-standards/

  • 14
    14.August.Friday

    August 14, 2003 Power Outage

    All day
    2026.08.14

    https://standardsmichigan.com/august-14-2003-power-outage-at-the-university-of-michigan/

    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    Summer Covers: Week 7

    All day
    2026.08.14

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  • 15
    15.August.Saturday

    "Last Train Home" Berklee

    All day
    2026.08.15

    Pat Metheny joined the faculty of Berklee College of Music in 1974 at age 19, becoming its youngest teacher ever after a recommendation from vibraphonist Gary Burton.

    He taught guitar there for roughly 18 months in the mid-1970s while developing his career and later joining Burton’s band. Though never a formal student, the experience immersed him in Boston’s vibrant jazz scene.

    In 1996 Berklee awarded him an honorary doctorate, and he delivered the commencement address. He returned in the early 2000s as Herb Alpert Visiting Professor for multi-week residencies, conducting clinics and coaching students.

    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    "Never Gonna Let You Go" PS22

    All day
    2026.08.15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“Couple near Booksellers” – Bernard Boutet de Monvel, French (1881 – 1949)

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The calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements subtly shapes life of the mind, generally; and family and community life, specifically.  Its cadence has roots in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe. Universities were not originally organized around modern “semesters.” Instead, the year followed the Christian liturgical calendar, agricultural seasons, food paths, daylight availability, and travel conditions.

In America educational calendars were nudged along by agricultural cycles.  In the United Kingdom university calendars evolved into three major terms: Michaelmas in autumn, associated with arrival and beginnings; Hilary or Lent in winter, associated with discipline and study; and Trinity or Easter in spring, associated with examinations, outdoor rituals, music, rowing, gardens, and celebration.

Modern commencement traditions across the Anglosphere are descendants of medieval spring degree ceremonies. Academic gowns, hoods, processions, Latin phrases, formal dining, chapel music, and public recognition all preserve traces of the university as a scholarly guild and religious-civic community.

Before railways, electric lighting, and central heating, universities had to adapt to muddy roads, short winter days, limited candles, cold buildings, and agricultural obligations. Spring therefore became the natural season of culmination, reunion, athletic competition, courtship, and ceremony.

The medieval university was not merely a school but an educational settlement — a self-governing town of scholars, libraries, chapels, kitchens, workshops, residences, and dining halls. That settlement pattern survives in residential colleges, quadrangles, tutorial systems, common rooms, chapel choirs, and formal meals.

Anglosphere campuses retain this ancient emotional rhythm: autumn seriousness, winter inwardness, and spring release. That continuity helps explain why colleges and universities still feel culturally distinct from ordinary commercial society.  (Relata: Gulliver Visits the Great Academy of Lagado)

 

Quadrivium: Summer

We’re “organized” but not too organized; like the bookseller who knows where every book can be found.

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