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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Spirit over vehicle

I had a good conversation today about uniformity. The particular item of discussion was whether or not a particular reading method should be used throughout the whole school district of the city I work in.

I hate uniformity. But I love zeal. No matter what method a teacher uses, if she teaches with zeal, the children in her class learn. We need to make sure that a teacher teaches with zeal rather than monitor what method (s)he uses.

It seems that with any business, the matters of a person's spirit are infinitely more important than the vehicle a person's spirit is required to fit inside. There's not a one-size-fits-all vehicle. People's spirits drive beauty or terror in whatever capacity they may find themselves.

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