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How would you explain the purpose of school to someone your age who has never had the opportunity of going to school? Would they like to go to school or feel sorry for you?
What are the ways knowledge will help you as you grow older:
How does knowledge increase your appreciation and understanding of other people?
Are there important things that you learn outside the classroom? Without books?
HEROES AND HEROINES
Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of a newspaper sports writer who traveled widely with his family. Living in San Francisco and Chicago and never feeling close to family or friends, Dorothy developed a love for literature and writing. College life and a core of radical friends gave her a foundation of new social, cultural, and political ideas. Bored with college life, she moved to New York city and joined the Bohemian culture of Greenwich Village. World War I brought an end to this life, and she worked for a short time as a nurse. She drifted for several years as a writer and after the birth of a daughter immersed herself in religious literature and theology. She was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was faithful to the Church for the rest of her life. In 1932, she discovered a connection between her concern for justice and her religious faith and, with Peter Maurin, founded a newspaper that would communicate their views - the Catholic Worker. For the next fifty years she was a voice of wisdom for Catholic reform, the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the peace movement, and "liberation theology."
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I never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo
The guy who thinks he knows all the answers has undoubtedly misunderstood the question.
A man should never be ashamed to say he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. - Alexander Pop
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He who knows little speaks much.
He is wise who speaks little, but his words have great value. - Tradition
The person who possess the innocence of childhood, vigor of youth, and wisdom of old age is capable of truly knowing the Divine. - Tradition
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king. - Tradition
Chinese
"He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." - Confucius
Helga's Dowry: a troll love story. Tomi de Paola. New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1977
It Could be Worse: a Yiddish folk tale. Margo Zemach. New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1976.
A Penny a Look: an old love story. Harve Zemach. New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1971.
Wretched Stone. Chris Van Allsburg. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Chicken Soup for the Soul. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Deerfield Beach: Health Communications, Inc., 1995. "Sachi" - p. 290
A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Deerfield Beach: Health Communications, Inc., 1995.
SONG OF THE MONTH Once again this year we will be writing a song of the month to go along with our value of the month. We will be starting with the fifth grade and working our way down to the first grade.
MARCH - WISDOM
The song of the month for March was written by the second graders in Room 16. It is sung to the melody of MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE.
Wisdom is the thing to have - Wisdom.
Learn to make good choices - Wisdom.
Think before you start to do - Wisdom.
Wise decisions are for you - Wisdom.
