Teaching, Living, and Learning

Sunday, May 18, 2008

ENDLESS SUPPLY

Sunday, May 18, 2008

I spend a great amount of time worrying about how my needs are going to be supplied, but the truth is that there’s an endless supply of all true necessities. In any situation I can imagine, what I really need is helpful ideas. My thoughts control my reality. What I think is what life becomes for me, and therefore commanding, constructive, and healing thoughts are the essential requirement in any circumstance. What’s wonderful about this is that there is no end to curative thoughts. Good ideas flow from a hidden and unending source; they are always as available as a spring of continuously flowing water. It’s utterly impossible to exhaust the stockpile of supportive ideas. Wherever I turn, there they are, just waiting to help. It’s never-ending money in a spiritual bank, and it makes me (and all of us) richer than the wealthiest person in the world.

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I found this quote (below) in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. She's describing Fanny Price's home at Mansfield, but the words exactly remind me of the atmosphere I try to maintain in my classroom:
" ... no sounds of contention, no raised voice, no abrupt bursts, no tread of violence, was ever heard; all proceeded in a regular course of cheerful orderliness; everybody had their due importance; everybody's feelings were consulted."

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The following quote is from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I would like my classroom to be like Dr. Strong's school:

"Dr. Strong's was an excellent school...It was very gravely and decorously ordered, and on a sound system; with an appeal, in everything, to the honor and good faith of the [students], and an avowed intention to rely on their possession of these qualities unless they proved themselves unworthy of it, which worked wonders. We all felt that we had a share in the management of the place, and in sustaining its character and dignity."

If I replaced "agent" with "teacher", this passage from a short story might, I hope, describe me in my classroom:
"The agent spent his days in following what seemed to many observers to be only a dull routine, but all his steadiness of purpose, all his simple intentness, all his gifts of strategy and powers of foresight, and of turning an interruption into an opportunity, were brought to bear upon this dull routine with a keen pleasure."
-- from "The Gray Mills of Farley" by Sarah Orne Jewett