A good goal
Posted: January 12, 2016 Filed under: Education, Opinion | Tags: beauty, blogging, education, higher education, obama, president obama, reflection, teaching, thinking Leave a commentI set out to make this year an amazing year. A beautiful year for education. But it’s already challenging in some ways and I knew it was going to be.
You know what it feels like, sometimes.
What a great time to find this quote from President Obama. It’s one that I think everyone in education should try to remember and apply to what we’re doing because every time we have new students in our classes, we will never again get the chance to start well with them.
“I want us to be able when we walk out this door to say we couldn’t think of anything else that we didn’t try to do—that we didn’t shy away from a challenge because it was hard. That we weren’t timid, or got tired, or somehow were thinking about the next thing because there is no next thing. This is it. Never in our lives again will we have the chance to do as much good as we do right now. I want to make sure that we maximize it.”
State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama, 2016.
Nick Falkner 