The world is our home. We will make it better.
We will make it better.
We will make it better.
We will make it better.
We will make it better.
How do we transform the school motto into more than a quaint, catchy, oft-repeated, conscience-calming phrase? Surely it must require us as teachers (parents and classroom teachers equally) to practice what we preach, not because we have to, but because it's the right thing to do, our obligation.
Community service -- giving of ourselves freely and without conditions to the benefit of something greater than ourselves -- seems basic. It means resisting the tendency to be self-indulgent and self-absorbed.
It requires that we are conscientious, compassion and responsible citizens of this world, right now, not theoretically, in the abstract, but NOW.
