How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility or of equality!
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility or of equality! It is next worse to receiving one. The new remembrance of either is a scorpion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:489
I was a public school teacher for 12 years. My whole life became being an artist in school with 125- 175 students a day. I was a brilliant psychologist even in the second year of teaching.
Teachers in public schools have a sonar attachment to their brains that guides them into seeing trouble coming, trouble brewing and the first instant act to stop a violent or breakdown in every psychological direction. After awhile the act of giving as a person in schools became my only way to survive with the students and teach them.
I developed a- Unless you put your shoulder to the wheel and helped me push – I wasn’t going to help you either-attitude. And this developed Teams fully organized on their own to work within the class structure. Once other kids caught on the word spread.
In America, if something is very successful – everyone is headed in that direction. If something is not successful- nobodys going that direction. So- You Choose- which way you wanna go ?
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