Nurture Tolerance

…What drove me to teach were two sparks.  The spark in a student’s eye when they grasped their way with confidence;  and the spark in my eye when a student revealed a different perspective to mine.  That’s why I loved being an English teacher.  It was all about sharing different interpretations, perspectives and nuances that lay within a landscape of words speaking truths only made real in someone else’s mind.  My role was to enable that thought freedom and to nurture tolerance.  My job was to allow people unique views in on the worlds we studied each day and for my eyes to be widened by their perspective.  Learning happened all round and, if I ever did my job right, on all levels too.
—    From a blog I follow:  “The Bamboo Principle“, located at: http://thebambooprinciple.wordpress.com/
The specific post was: http://thebambooprinciple.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/a-job-of-it/
[Another great blog to check out if you haven’t already…  And, yes, back in 2010, I still didn’t know about scheduling posts.  In a way, it’s nice to be reminded we’re all beginners at some point.   —    kmab]
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2020	Give And Gain
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2019	Transfiguration
2018	2018 Mid-Terms
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2017	Islam Is Not The Enemy
2016	A Checkered Past, A Checkered Future
2015	Preferences
2014	Have You Taken The Pledge?
2013	Nurture Tolerance
2012	Election Day – Please Hear What I’m Not Saying
2011	Mostly Strange, Always Blue
	What Is It You Want?
2010	MSNBC, Bring Back Keith !!!
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	Worse Still…
	Afraid So…
	Making It
	Don’t Jump Small
	Time
	Push!!
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	Not Yet…
	Mean Too
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