I Learned it in First Grade: Grownup Issues

Friday, May 4, 2007

Grownup Issues

"Are you a grownup? Why don't you have any kids?"

I am the same age (25 by the way) as most of the mothers of my students. They all seem to really struggle with the idea of a woman their mother's age who is not a mother herself. In their eyes I am something less than a full adult because I don't have children of my own. Funny thing is, I don't feel like a full adult yet so they must be on to something.

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Quotes I Love

Don't look back because you might fall over what is in front of you. Kate Williams, age 7

I touch the future, I teach. Christa McAuliffe

I am only one, but still I am one.I can not do everything, but still I can do something.And because I can not do everything,I will not refuse to do something I can do. Helen Keller

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand. Unknown

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. Alec Bourne

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. Claiborne Pell

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin