Potential
~Potential is lost in the absence of effort and passion. I'm not sure where I came across this powerful piece of insight, but it hits home in so many ways. Imagine the world without Michelangelo, Dante, Pasteur... What if they'd chosen to squander their talents because they couldn't be bothered to research, invent and create. How many of us attack each day with a desire to do our best and be our best? I know, it's exhausting to exist in this state but so well worth it. It is here that greatness is born-most often not the greatness of the masters but the greatness found in the ordinary moments of living in a school that is filled with passion by all those who inhabit it. Children are born with this type of passion; the need to know all, be all and do all. It is when they encounter apathetic teachers and adults that they lose their potential. I speak of the teachers who arrive each day content with mediocrity. The teachers who forget to read, research, and investigate in...
