Many years ago I ran across the quote that sits in the upper right-hand corner of this page:  “Education is either to calm the disturbed or disturb the calm.”  I honestly can’t remember who said that, but it stuck with me because I had to think about it for awhile before I decided that it was the truth.  I have shared that quote with every one of my students over the past 20 years, and I often ask them to write a journal entry to let me know how they see themselves as students:  calm or disturbed.

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