The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul… Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category: Education
Eduquote of the Week | 12.25.2023
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. Phillips Brooks
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 22 | The Gift of Our Work | December 20, 2023
Our work reaches beyond us. It reaches through time. It reaches into the future. EVERGREEN POST We do not get tired of good Christmas songs. Well, I do not, anyway. I look forward to their repetition each year. When beginning to compose a post for the week before Christmas this year, I realized I had…
Eduquote of the Week | 12.18.2023
I want you to be proud of me, but, more importantly, I want to be proud of myself. Nightwing
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 21 | Humility | December 13, 2023
A colleague this week asked me if I could distill good leadership to one quality. Over the course of this first semester, I have had the opportunity to consider – deeply – what I believe are the core qualities that make up a good leader, that inspire a leader who truly serves others. A colleague…
Eduquote of the Week | 12.11.2023
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. John Steinbeck
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 20 | The Undone | December 6, 2023
… there are other things that need tending to as we approach the end of the semester – … things that need to be done. How did it get this late in the semester? I suspect teachers all over the Western world have similar reactions to the first week of December. Where did this semester…
Eduquote of the Week | 12.4.2023
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
Teach and Serve | Vol. 9, No. 17 | Conspiracies Among Us | November 29, 2023
I believe we are too quick to ascribe intricate motives to what others do. As I write this, it is the week after the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. With each anniversary of the event, more information comes to light or, perhaps more precisely, old information is recycled and repackaged…
Eduquote of the Week | 11.27.2023
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. Francesca Reigler