One of the best received activities in the Values in Action! Program is to create a Personal Time Line. Using an adding machine roll of paper write the numbers 1through 80 leaving about an inch between each number writing with black ink. Place a red line on 20,40,60,80 to show a person’s life in four… Read more »
A teacher recently gave his high performing students a test. He pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed mason jar and set it on a table in front of him. Then he produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top… Read more »
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. –
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth. –
“Head and heart should be developed together. The mind is but the instrument used by the heart…All your books will not save your life from failure if your heart goes wrong; if your heart goes right, it can take a head and make it useful to society.” – William Jennings Bryan
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. – C.S. Lewis
Truth Enters the Heart first and then goes to the head and becomes reason! – Author Unknown
“Washington, July 21–At a press conference today on Capitol Hill, former Education Secretary William J. Bennett and a bipartisan group of Senators will release an “Appeal to Hollywood,” signed by more than fifty prominent Americans, including two former presidents. The appeal calls upon the entertainment industry–television, film, music, video, and electronic games–to devise a voluntary… Read more »
Ethical Guidepost How do you make your Choices? HORMONES vs VALUES REVENGE vs RESTRAINT IMPULSE vs CONSCIENCE IMMEDIATE vs DELAYED DISCARD vs RESPECT
Only with the heart can one see rightly! What is essential in life is invisible to the eye! – Gene Bedley
