If You Want To Be

Affirm People. Affirm Your Children. Believe In Them, Not In What You See But In What You Don't See - Their Potential.

Before You Wonder "am I Doing Things Right?" Wonder "am I Doing The Right Things?"

Character Grows In The Soil Of Experience With The Fertilization Of Example, The Moisture Of Ambition, And The Sunshine Of Satisfaction. Character Cannot Be Purchased, Bargained For, Inherited, Rented Or Imported From Afar. It Must Be Home-grown. Purely Intellectual Development Without Commensurate Internal Character Development Makes As Much Sense As Putting A High-powered Sports Car In The Hands Of A Teenager Who Is High On Drugs. Yet All Too Often In The Academic World, That's Exactly What We Do By Not Focusing On The Character Development Of Young People.

Paradigms Are Powerful Because They Create The Lens Through Which We See The World.

Leadership Is A Choice, Not A Position