Don't Jump!!

I love the expression that we are able to see what we can see and do what we do because we "stand on the shoulders of giants." It's an elegant and accurate way of saying that we shouldn't be too full of ourselves. 

Students have always struggled with gaining their own identity but I feel like this generation is not rebelling because they want to be independent of their predecessors.  Instead, they are ignorant to the struggle that has gone on before they arrived on the scene.  They believe that because there are a few clouds obscuring the way forward, it would be better to jump back down and trudge through the muck and grime all over again to find a better vantage point.

My students need to pause and look back on the progress that's been made.  They stand on the shoulders of those that have gone before but they insist on jumping from their current position and trudging through the quagmire of poor decisions and disrespect.   I want to shake my students and yell, "Don't jump!"



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