The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world, the heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the more requested poems from Gene Bedley’s Seminars on “The Five P’s of Raising Responsible Children” is “I’m Always Here”. A poem he shares with several quotes on Compassion. I’m always here to understand you I’m always here To laugh with You I’m always here To cry with you I’m always here To… Read more »
I am in awe of great teachers.My own children are lucky enough to have been taught by a few of those special people, and I have had some of them as colleagues. Against the most difficult odds, they accomplish the impossible day after day in the classroom, be it fourth grade or 12th grade, biology… Read more »
Superior school administrators exert positive leadership characteristics in working with people, and strive continually to develop and strengthen the following traits: 1. COURAGE. It takes a great deal of courage to be a superior administrator. The administrator must do the best for the most. Administrators must be able to take criticism from their board of… Read more »
What you have in the life of a nation you must first put into its schools
LAWS * ETHICS Since values demand so much from us, wouldn’t it just be easier to lay down some rules with kids and expect them to follow the rules. Plato once asked his students, “Don’t laws equal ethics?” Plato’s response was “Ethics equal laws only in a perfect society.” Since we do not live in… Read more »
A survey of American workers found that almost half admit to committing unethical or illegal acts at work in the past year. “Fifty-six percent felt pressure from their supervisors to actunethically,” says the Cutler Daily Scoop. “How often do you hear things like, ‘I don’t care, just get it done.’” Fourteen percent say they covered… Read more »
New Survey Looks at Why People Sometimes Bend the Rules at Work ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Having overly aggressive financial and organizational business objectives without a formal ethics program could be a formula for pushing otherwise honest employees over the edge, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management… Read more »
A private school has as its mission cultivating w RALEIGH — Hope Elementary School is in an area where fostering high academic achievement has been difficult in the past. But school administrators are trying a little bit of everything to help students succeed. The school opened in August to serve the children of the Halifax… Read more »
Memorable Lessons, Stronger Citizens At Arcade Middle School in the San Juan Unified School District, students air the difficult social issues they faced as sixth graders — peer pressure, bullies, cliques. Then they work up lessons with their teachers and take them back to elementary schools, where they help younger kids work out some of… Read more »
