Life is a vapor. Leave a mark.
Teaching is a thankless job. Not every student ends a K12 career realizing the struggle of learning was the prize that led to excellence in living, but this student in this blackout poem got it. And he went on.
It’s not the grade that brought the excellence; it was the struggle to learn in all the successes and failures. The struggle is okay to experience. It is the prize in school. It is the key to going on with fortitude.
Teaching is an art not for the faint of heart.
The classroom is a battleground for the minds of our next generation.
The good teacher fights the conflict. A great teacher motivates the student to fight the conflict.
If you are called to teach, you are a warrior fighting for the next generation.
The hardest part of the battle is choosing to love a child’s future enough to pick up the sword today.
Vapormarks