EDUCATIONAL GOALS ...to be aware of the uniqueness of each individual and to treat that uniqueness with loving concern. To provide each student with the opportunities appropriate to his or her abilities and interests. To…
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STAY SIMPLE Ouspensky, author of In Search of the Miraculous met with his students when he knew he was dying. He refused to answer any of their questions about the system he had been teaching.…
TOO FROZEN TO LEARN The story is told of an eagle perched on a block of ice just above Niagra Falls. The swift current carried the ice and its majestic passenger closer to the edge…
THE STORY OF THE TWO VIRGINS The other day, one of our church members told me this true story. She is a teacher's aide at an elementary school. A first grader named Jacob approached her…
TEACHING SPILLS OVER After discussing with me how God had arranged a conversation with a brother about a potential job opportunity, Bob Cameron turned to Shane Miller and remarked, "Shane, can you believe how wonderful…
DEFEAT DOES NOT MEAN FAILURE Booker T. Washington said, "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while…
THE HITLER SIDE It is only when people rid themselves of the dark, ugly, murderous side in each of us - what I symbolically call (the) 'Hitler' - and learn to love unconditionally, that we…
ONE LESS TEST Mike was studying for a test one evening. He was very quiet for a long time. So naturally his parents became curious. When they checked on him, they overheard this prayer: "Now…
THE BEST WAY TO LEARN IS TO LISTEN Robert L. Montgomery, who leads seminars in executive skills and has written Listening Made Easy (Amacom, 1981), has polled his seminar attendees over the years, asking them…
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER Not too long ago we received a memorial gift to the Church. There was a short note written on a beautiful little card that described whom the memorial was for. It said…
POSITIVE REALITIES In the cartoon of Broom Hilda, the little green witch, she is standing on the edge of a cliff. Across the way, with a deep canyon separating them, Gaylord, the buzzard, is standing…
PATIENCE CHANGES My dad met a young girl while he was the pastor of a little church in Sanford. She had some mental problems and had fallen in love with her psychatrist. She had been…
COMPLIMENTS REMEMBERED From the October, 1991 issue of Reader's Digest comes the story told by Helen P. Mrosla, a Nun in St. Mary's school in Morris, Minnesota. Trying one day to teach "New Math" to…
HOW WILL THEY LEARN? According to my records, from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Mrs. H. Harrison Smith in 1816, came this gem: "I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of…
TIME TO LEARN A visitor from up north was fishing in the White River when a local boy approached him and asked, "How many fish yer got, mister?" "None yet," he was told. "Well, you…
LAND OF THE DYING When John Owen, the great Puritan, lay on his death bed, his secretary wrote (in his name) to a friend, "I am still in the land of the living." "Stop," said…
LOVE AND TRUTH The Master said, "Yu, have you heard the six words to which are attached six becloudings?" Yu replied, "I have not." "Sit down, and I will tell them to you." "There is…
STICK IT OUT A little boy was goofing around all day long, paying no attention to his school work. After repeated warnings the teacher sent him to the principal's office. The boy came back and…
LEMON PIE LEARNING Good teaching practices reinforcement: "Hit students in the face with a lemon pie enough times and sooner or later they will lick some of it off."
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SCHOOL IS FOR PRISONERS One day my four-year-old daughter lined up all of her dolls on the couch in the living room. "What are you doing?" I asked her. "I'm playing school," she replied. "I'm…
