Let me see if I've got this right. You want me to go into that room with all those kids and fill their every waking moment with a love for learning. Not only that, I'm supposed to instill a sense of pride in their ethnicity, behaviorally modify disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse and T-shirt messages.
I am to fight the war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, check their backpacks for guns and raise their self-esteem. I'm to teach them patriotism, good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, how and where to register to vote, how to balance a checkbook and how to apply for a job.
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
There was a rich man who was deliberately hard on his farmhand.
"Occasionally weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face, Trust God. And embrace the life you have."
At a dinner party, one of the guests was an obnoxiously loud young man. He made disparaging remarks about everyone and everything.