"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." -- Alexander the Great.
I've used that quote a bit over the years to begin my letter when I write to my old teachers. I never imagined when I started my career how rewarding it would be to have students contact me years and years after graduating to tell me I've made a difference in their lives. In the interest of Karma, I began to write my old teachers to tell them the same. Probably the best motivation I get to be a better teacher is feedback from students and former students telling me that I am a good teacher.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
I think this quotes says it all. We should look at ourselves and work with what we have right now. I don’t want to waste time wishing for more or better of anything. There is no guarantee in life and we should live it to the fullest right now. Remember the saying “Be careful what you wish for.” I think if we take stock in our “right now” we can find good and special things to help us move forward.
"Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good." ~Walter Mosley
I think this quote is great. We should look at each day as a good day and that every word we speak could be good if we choose it. We have the choice of words we use that can be so powerful in a good way. More people need to put them to good use and make someone's day.
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum - an excerpt from the book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic,hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." -- Alexander the Great.
ReplyDeleteI've used that quote a bit over the years to begin my letter when I write to my old teachers. I never imagined when I started my career how rewarding it would be to have students contact me years and years after graduating to tell me I've made a difference in their lives. In the interest of Karma, I began to write my old teachers to tell them the same. Probably the best motivation I get to be a better teacher is feedback from students and former students telling me that I am a good teacher.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
ReplyDelete~Theodore Roosevelt
I think this quotes says it all. We should look at ourselves and work with what we have right now. I don’t want to waste time wishing for more or better of anything. There is no guarantee in life and we should live it to the fullest right now. Remember the saying “Be careful what you wish for.” I think if we take stock in our “right now” we can find good and special things to help us move forward.
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ReplyDelete"Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good."
ReplyDelete~Walter Mosley
I think this quote is great. We should look at each day as a good day and that every word we speak could be good if we choose it. We have the choice of words we use that can be so powerful in a good way. More people need to put them to good use and make someone's day.
All I Really Need To Know
ReplyDeleteI Learned In Kindergarten
by Robert Fulghum
- an excerpt from the book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic,hold hands, and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even
the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die.
So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books
and the first word you learned - the biggest
word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.
Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm.
Think what a better world it would be if
all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you
are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
© Robert Fulghum, 1990.
Found in Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, Villard Books: New York, 1990, page 6-7.