Our Business Is To Educate

"Mediocrity is the antithesis of greatness - Good enough is never good enough."

Anyone who has come by my office in the past couple of weeks remarks about the new picture.  It's a photo of a guy lifting a huge piece of timber over his head and putting on a stack of fire wood. It looks like something from Survivor!  The caption underneath says: With true leadership, good enough is never good enough.

If you were stranded on an island and needed a signal fire, how big would you want that fire to be?  I don't know about you, but my fire would use every piece of combustible material I could get my hands on - if it didn't move, it burned!

In recent days I've had some really good conversations with some true teachers. They recognize that the business of education is facing some pretty stiff challenges.  They also realize that now is not the time to complain or give up; it's time to find new ways to challenge and motivate students.  They are bringing their best to the classroom in order to encourage students to bring their best effort so that true learning takes place each day.

In essence, they are modeling the words of the Apostle Paul: To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some (I Corinthians 9:22).

THANK YOU! True teachers never stop at good enough!