Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 08:07:53 -0400 (EDT)
Random Thought: A Real Quick Random Thought: At My Best
This just popped into my head as I finished my walk. I was
cooling off in the hot, humid, mosquito riddled air by the fishpond,
joyfully thinking about the nearly three hundred caladiums I'm going to
put into the garden today. I slowly stared at the pond and pergola,
turned my head to gaze at the three room addition to the house, all of
which I built over years by myself.
We've just finished a week-long presentation of the "Scavenger
Hunt Project." Now, all the communities are gearing up for the
semester-ending "NY Times Project."
You know when I think I am at my best as a teacher? It is when I
am least visible. It is when I fill the class with the perfumes of
potential, believing, possibility, aspiring. It is when I side step the
controlling answers to the students' dependent "what do you wants" and
submissive "what should I dos" and fearful "what do you think abouts" and
reluctant "is this okays." It is when a community in the class says
jubliantly and triumphantly with words and gestures , "We did it by
ourselves."
It when they begin to understand why I am not surprised.
To my Christian friends around the world, a Blessed Easter,
and....