I’ve always thought that good teaching is about illumination. Sure, we teach things kids might not know, but a lot of the time, we’re just shedding light on the stuff they already do know... Kids know how to read, but I’m trying to get them to love reading. Kids know how to write, but I’m trying to inspire them to express themselves better. In both instances, they have the materials they need already inside them: I’m just here to guide them a bit, to shed a little light. To illume.” -Mr. Browne.
What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn’t that the most important thing of all? Isn’t that the kind of question we should be asking ourselves all the time? “What kind of person am I?
The point is we all have to put up with the bad days. Now, unless you want to be treated like a baby the rest of your life, or like a kid with special needs, you just have to suck it up and go.
I took a shower, like, two days ago.
They were a gloomy party that night, and the gloom gathered still deeper on them in the following days. They had crossed the enchanted stream; but beyond it the path seemed to straggle on just as before, and in the forest they could see no change.
You are beautiful no matter what they say Words can’t bring you down You are beautiful in every single way.
Then they came out of the narrow valley and at once she saw the reason. There stood Peter and Edmund and all the rest of Aslan’s army fighting desperately against the crowd of horrible creatures whom she had seen last night; only now, in the daylight, they looked even stranger and more evil and more deformed.
Olivia is a girl who sees everything.
I plant a little notion of kindness so that at least it’s there, this seedling buried inside them. Will it take root? Will it flower? Who knows? But either way, I’ve done my deed.” -Mr. Browne.
Then I start talking about the obvious benefits of the precept. If everyone adopted that quote as his or her own personal precept, I ask them, wouldn’t the world be a better place? Imagine if nations adopted it as a mandate – wouldn’t there be fewer conflicts?” -Mr. Browne.
One thing I’ve learned after being a middle-school director for twenty years: there are almost always more than two sides to every story. Although I don’t know the details, I have an inkling about what may have sparked the confrontation with Julian. While nothing justifies striking another student – ever – I also know good friends are sometimes worth defending.
Sometimes kids don’t even know they’re leaders until they start to lead” -Mr. Browne.
This precept means that we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality.
His eyes are about an inch below where they should be on his face, almost to halfway down his cheeks.
We would spend hours playing pretend games about missions to deep space, or landing on Pluto. That became our favorite planet to travel to. Pluto was our Tatooine.
It’s kind of funny how parents actually end up forming the same little groups their kids form.
But every Spring It groweth young again, And fairies sing. – Flower Fairies of the Spring, 1923.
Let them fall, Mowgli. They are only tears.
There are so many words I can use to describe the looks on people’s faces. And for a long time I didn’t get it. I’d just get mad. Mad when they stared. Mad when they looked away. “What the heck are you looking at?” I’d say to people – even grown-ups.
Countless doctors have drawn little tic-tac-toe grids for my parents over the years to try to explain the genetic lottery to them. Geneticists.