I work today on a commencement speech that I am honored to give coming up in a few weeks. This speech is for a class that has inspired and enriched my life deeply - in more ways than they may ever know or realize. This is a lesson for me in writing it - knowing how much they have positively affected me, and taking that experience, and applying it to myself - that I have inspired others and not known it or seen it or recognized it. And how did these bright human spirits inspire me the most? By being THEMSELVES. Authentically. Richly. By questioning, questing, striving, searching, and listening to their inner guides... they are wise young minds. But they are old souls. In teaching them, they taught me oh so much more... this is what I love most about teaching, what I get! In the best circumstances, it is the best "job" ever. What a magical blessing that I get to speak to them on this precipice from which they are about to soar...
"You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher." Rudolf Steiner, creator of Waldorf education said this... a fantastic reminder (for all of us - for we are all students and teachers!)
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