“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.”
When I heard President Obama express this in his inauguration speech, I couldn’t help but think how strongly this applies to teachers. For years teachers have accepted the responsibility of educating our children, not grudgingly, but with sincere passion. We know well the satisfaction of fulfilling a difficult task, don’t we? It’s one of the reasons we became teachers in the first place.
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