Archive for March, 1997

A Student and A Sparrow

As I walked through the dark streets, white carpeted with the fallen snow of dogwood petals, this morning, my thoughts and feelings focused more on the blackness of the night then on the whiteness of the umbrella of dogwoods, more than bleakness of the few remains of winter than on the renewal of spring colorfully [...]

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877

877. That’s the number of career wins reached this weekend during the NCAA tournament by Dean Smith, basketball coach at the University of North Carolina. The accolades poured in and the testimonials poured out as he became the winningest coach in the history of college basketball. One simple, profound comment summed up all the reason [...]

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Four Corners of the Classroom

My good friend Steve Gunter reminded me that teaching is the mission of movement. It is assisting discovery of the world and self; it is entertaining the always more; it is revealing the always possibile; it is encouraging the continue on; it is seeding the imagination; it is reaching out and in for the limitless; [...]

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