Saturday, August 2, 2008

Yes Miss!

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer; she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael; he's a doctor.'" A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher; she's dead."

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Worry


' We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. '

~Stacia Tauscher

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Billy Brown



An honest seven-year-old admitted calmly to her parents that Billy Brown had kissed her after class. "How did that happen?," gasped her mother. "It wasn't easy," admitted the young lady, "but three girls helped me catch him."

Monday, July 28, 2008

Grace


Image by Nina Kande

Sunday, July 27, 2008

1762

' You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. '



~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762