"Someone asked me recently how I handled students who failed. And I said, 'Why I never failed a student. Not in fifty years of teaching. I worked with the troubled students until they succeeded. I thought that was my job."
Sadie Delany
Book of Everyday Wisdom
Kodansha International 1994
If you haven't read, Having Our Way, by Sadie and Betsy Delany, you are missing a treat! Very few books, do I read more than once. This is an exception.
Sadie and Betsy were feisty African American women who lived to be over 100. If I recall, they were trimming their own trees in their 70s because the trees spoiled their view. Sadie was a teacher, Betsy a dentist. I believe Sadie was hired as a teacher without an interview. With an interview, she'd have lost the job, because she was black.
The Book of Everyday Wisdom is a collection of their sayings. It's great, but you'll miss the humor and spunky interaction between the sisters that you'd enjoy in their biography.
Have you had a teacher that "made the difference" in your life? Share with us; and thank them.
EverGrowing,
Lonnie
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