More recently I’ve seen a need for communication across so many different lines: interdisciplinary, parent-school, teacher-teacher, across all types of roles where people could use a dose of empathy:
Clean Out Your Ears With Hope
Is anybody listening to what the people say?
Or would you rather keep your peace and turn your ears away?
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The old folks have their hangups?
Youth – genuine gripes but solutions few?
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If we could try to tune in, a little more each day
to what that “nut” right next to us is trying hard to say
Perhaps we’d find he’s human in his own especial way,
and we might learn that all of us would feel the growth that day.
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It is worth hoping that, as the pendulum begins to still between objectivity and rampant feeling, educators will synthesize theories, feelings and behavior in to a more meaningful and functioning whole.
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