Free Teacher Quote - "Plans"

A good plan violently executed now

is better than a perfect plan

executed next week.

Quote by: George S. Patton

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So, as we begin to say goodbye to 2007 and look forward to 2008, I wish you health, happiness, and a good plan for today! If you would like to shop for more inspiration, please visit us at Schoodoodle.com. Here's a link to inspirational posters! Happy New Year Everybody!

Free Teacher Joke - "The Price of Balloons"

Watching me fill balloons with helium at my school supply shop, a customer asked the price.

"It's a dollar per balloon," the cashier said.

The customer complained, "It used to be fifty cents."

Another customer concluded, "Well that's inflation."

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Here's Food for Thought from Around the World (A Geography Lesson Plan)

Subject: Geography; World Culture
Grades: 4-6

Overview
This lesson uses food as an “appetizing” introduction to six different countries in the world. Students practice basic map skills identifying the location of these six countries and comparing their geographic features to states in the United States.

Objectives
Students will:
· Use a map of the world to identify six different countries and the world regions in which those countries reside.
· Use a map of the world to identify facts about countries from a spatial perspective.
· Compare geographic features of the U.S. with selected countries around the world.

National Geography Standards
Standard 1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
Standard 10: The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth’s cultural mosaics.


Materials Needed
· Food for Thought Challenge Cards from WorldTeasers: World Culture & Geography
· Wall map of the world
· Computer with Internet access (optional)

Getting Started
Distribute the six WorldTeasers: Food for Thought Challenge Cards* to six volunteers. Call upon each volunteer to read out loud his or her Challenge Card to the class. Let students guess the answer to the Food for Thought Challenge Card. Discuss with students the different foods mentioned. How many think they would like a McHuevo? Why or why not?

(*Note: WorldTeasers: World Culture and Geography consists of 150 Challenge Cards divided into 25 different categories, six Challenge Cards in each category.)

Development
Direct students’ attention to a map of the world on the wall. Ask a volunteer to point to each country mentioned in the Food for Thought Challenge Cards (El Salvador, Uruguay, Greece, Sweden, Singapore, Sri Lanka). Help students identify the world regions or continents for each country. (El Salvador/Central America, Uruguay/South America, Greece/Europe, Sweden/Europe, Singapore/Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka/Asia)

Activity
Divide the class into six groups. Have each group research one of the six Food for Thought countries and develop a WorldTeaser Challenge question for classmates that is based on information that can be found on the map. For example: “Which country in Central America has the largest land mass? Or: “In what ocean is the island of Sri Lanka?” “Which country borders the most number of other countries?”

Extension
Have students look at a map of the United States. Which state(s) has similar geographic features to the six Food for Thought countries?

Extension (optional)
Let students research other popular foods from the around using a computer with Internet access. Challenge groups of students to put together a World Menu, listing foods they would serve for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and the country each food item comes from.

Next Week: Help Students Get an “Upper Hand” on Idioms

Source: WorldTeasers: World Culture and Geography — An educational game designed to help upper elementary grade students supersize their global knowledge with fascinating, intriguing, and amusing trivia about countries and their culture. Available at SchooDoodle.com.

Free Parent Involvement Activity - "Icy Bag" - Age 12 to 24 Months

Sensory Awareness, Small Motor Skills, Observation & Discovery

Put two ice cubes in a sandwich-sized resealable plastic bag and place it on your child's high chair tray. Leave the bag unsealed, letting her explore the ice and the bag. She can take the ice out and hold it, or put it on the tray.

Create a non-slippery area on the tray by placing a dishtowel over half of the surface. Your child will enjoy transferring the cubes to and from the bag and onto the slippery and non-slippery areas of the high chair tray.

Caution: Monitor your child closely during this activity. Ice can pose a choking hazard. Discard the ice and plastic bag immediately after play.

Source: Bright and Beyond, Smart & Simple Age 1 Activities to do with your Child, 12 to 24 Months. Available at Schoodoodle.com.

Free Parent Involvement Activity - "Back Writing" - Kindergarten to 1st Grade

Pre-Reading, Letter Recognition, Handwriting

Write a letter on your child's back with your finger. After he figures out the letter, encourage him to think of a word that starts with that letter. Once your child gets the hang of this, you can try writing short words as well.

Variation - Use your finger to write a letter on the palm of your child's hand. This way, he can actually see the "writing" strokes.

Source: Bright and Beyond, Smart & Simple Reading Activities to do with your Child, Ages 5 to 9, Kindergarten to 3rd Grade. Available at Schoodoodle.com.

Free Teacher Joke - "What Bothers You the Most?"

I rushed my thirteen-year-old son, Eric, to the emergency room with a terrible cough, upset stomach, vomiting, diarrhea, and 102 degree fever. The doctor did an exam, and then asked Eric what bothered him the most.

After thinking it over, Eric said with a scratchy voice, "I would have to say getting an 'F' in Spanish."

Founder's Focus: Real Men Read December 2007

I spent the better part of my morning at Nathan Davis Middle School on Chicago's southwest side reading to a group of feisty seventh grade students. I am a volunteer in our city's Real Men Read program.

Real Men Read is a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) program that brings men into our schools to read to students for one hour each month. The essence of the Real Men Read Program is to show students who real men are, that real men do in fact read and that real men value education.

Men of all walks of life can be MENtors. Doctors, janitors, bankers, firemen, educators and postmen are all readers.

Our reading selection was from Sharon G. Flake's novel, The Skin I'm In. Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

The purpose of my visit is to promote reading and foster a desire to read more frequently, but this story is really used to show the positive effects of developing healthy self-esteem and a healthy self-image.

I was taken by surprise at how topical and real the book's content is. There are discussions about sex, drugs, and general issues that confront so many pre-teens. Seventh grade is such an awkward age--a coming-of-age. Having an outlet to discuss some of the issues that the students face is great. The book really opens these topics up for discussion.

Week 1 with classroom 308 from Davis Middle School was an adventure. We didn't dig as deep into the issues as I would have liked, but it takes time for us to get to know one another. I am confident that with a few more meetings we will be able to converse more freely and really get into the meat of the message that The Skin I'm In is trying to convey.

All-in-all, it was a positive experience. I enjoyed the energy of the class. Seventh graders keep you on your toes. If I can be successful with that group, there will not be any business meetings that I cannot handle!

Have a safe and joyous new year with your family and friends!

Michael Ockrim - Founder, Chicago School Supply

For more information on CPS Real Men Read, please call (773) 553-BOOK (2665) or contact the Program Manager, Nichole Matthews, directly at (773) 553-1592 or via email at realmenread@cps.k12.il.us

Help Your Students Score Big with Vocabulary

Subject: English, Vocabulary

Grade(s): 7 and up

“Is there ever a good reason to prevaricate?” Ask that question among a group of your students and there’s a good chance it will elicit a lively debate — at least among a few. . Some will say, “Absolutely not. Veracity is golden.” (Give that student an A.) Others might suggest there’s some wiggle room, noting, as Tennessee Williams once said, “Mendacity is the system we live.” (Another A.) But the majority may simply stare back at you and ask, “Huh?”

Having a good, strong vocabulary is critical in today’s world. Not only is it important in school, it also has a direct effect on career advancement. In fact, according to the Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization that has been engaged in aptitude and vocabulary research since 1922, a larger vocabulary is not only an indicator of success in business, it is also “the best predictor of overall success in school and performance on the SAT–Verbal and other similar tests.”

But for many students, studying a long list of vocabulary words is tedious, tiresome, and, quite frankly, boring. What’s more, trying to find time in an already busy curriculum to work in a vocabulary lesson is not always easy.

That’s where a new game called WordTeasers: College Prep comes in. WordTeasers is a collection of 150 WordTeaser questions and statements designed to get everyone talking, laughing, thinking…and learning new words — one new word at a time.

WordTeaser challenge questions and statements range from the silly (What do you grouse about more than anything else?); to the thought-provoking (Give a cogent reason for lowering the age at which teenagers can get a driver’s license); to the debatable (Who among your friends is the most indolent?) Yet, all of the questions and statements are designed to help your students acquire new vocabulary by making vocabulary fun, active and engaging, and by putting new words is the context of real-life situations.

WordTeasers can be used in a variety of ways within the classroom…when there is only a few minutes left at the end of the class or even as the basis for a longer lesson plan or writing assignment. For example, at the end of a class, take time to pass the WordTeaser box around. Let each student pull out a WordTeaser Challenge card and read the question or statement to the class. See who gives the quickest and most accurate response to each Challenge.

With WorldTeasers, your students will find that a great vocabulary doesn’t have to be tedious, tiresome, or boring to achieve. And that’s no prevarication.

Next Week: Food for Thought Around the World (A Geography Lesson Plan)

Source: WordTeasers: College Prep — An educational game designed to help high school students improve vocabulary and have fun at the same time. Grades 7 + . Available at SchooDoodle.com.

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Free Parent Involvement Activity - "Drawing in the Dark" - Age 7 and Up

Imaginative Drawing, Visualization Activities

A drawing is easily visualized in our mind's eye, but can that picture be translated directly from mind to paper without using our physical eyes as a guide? As a way to further explore this mind-body connection, encourage your child to try to draw a picture while blindfolded or looking away from the paper.

She can either keep the pencil on the paper at all times or allow herself to raise the pencil now and then as she is completing the picture.

Your child will likely find that she gets better and better at this activity with practice. Over time, her mind will adapt to being able to draw without depending upon external visual cues.

Source: Bright and Beyond, Smart & Simple Activities to do with your Child, Thinking, Ages 7 and up. Available at Schoodoodle.com.

Free Parent Involvement Activity - "Big & Little" - Age 1

Visual Discrimination, Language Skills

Use household items to teach your child the concept of sizes -- big and small.

Bring out two or three differently sized spoons. Lay them before your child and talk about which is the biggest and which is the smallest. Shift the spoons around and then encourage him to pick up the biggest one. You can follow this up with differently sized bowls, plates, pans, utensils, socks, etc.

Use other everyday objects to discuss longest, shortest, fattest, thinnest, etc.

Source: Bright and Beyond, Smart & Simple Activities to do with your Child, Age 1, 12 to 24 months. Available at Schoodoodle.com.

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Presidential Candidate's Stance on Education

It can be a daunting task to track down every presidential candidate and learn about his (or her!) position on one specific topic.

Thanks to edweek.org, there is now a place to read up on and contrast both Democratic and Republican potentials’ perspectives on American education.

SchooDoodle has classroom resources to teach the electoral process to students in grades 3-5, grades 6-8, and high school.

In Some Schools, iPods Are Required Listening

A ban on iPods is so strictly enforced at José Martí Middle School that as many as three a week are confiscated from students — and returned only to their parents.

But even as students have been told to leave their iPods at home, the school here in Hudson County, NY has been handing out the portable digital players to help bilingual students with limited English ability sharpen their vocabulary and grammar by singing along to popular songs.

Next month, the Union City district will give out 300 iPods at its schools as part of a $130,000 experiment in one of New Jersey’s poorest urban school systems.

The effort has spurred a handful of other districts in the state, including the ones in Perth Amboy and South Brunswick, to start their own iPod programs in the last year, and the project has drawn the attention of educators from Westchester County to Monrovia, Calif.

The spread of iPods into classrooms comes at a time when many school districts across the country have outlawed the portable players from their buildings — along with cellphones and DVD players — because they pose a distraction, or worse, to students.

In some cases, students have been caught cheating on tests by loading answers, mathematical formulas and notes onto their iPods.

But some schools are rethinking the iPod bans as they try to co-opt the devices for educational purposes.

Last month, the Perth Amboy district bought 40 iPods for students to use in bilingual classes that are modeled after those in Union City.

In South Brunswick, 20 iPods were used last spring in French and Spanish classes. And in North Plainfield, N.J., the district has supplied iPods to science teachers to illustrate chemistry concepts, and it is considering allowing students in those classes to use iPods that they have brought from home.

To view the complete article, click here.

(The New York Times 11.09.07) Please note: A free registration is required to view this article.

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Free Teacher Quote - "Counting"

Not everything that counts can be counted.
Not everything that can be counted counts.

Quote by: Albert Einstein

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Free Teacher Joke - "Rooftop Love"

Two antenna were hanging out on the rooftop.

After a few months, they fell in love and decided

to get married.

The wedding ceremony was pretty ordinary....

BUT THE RECEPTION WAS EXCELLENT!

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Teacher Lesson Plan -- Idioms in the Limelight

Subject: Language Arts
Grade(s): 4-6

Overview
Challenge students to “collect their wits,” “put on their thinking cap,” and keep their “nose to the grindstone,” as you introduce this entertaining lesson plan on idioms. Students draw a literal interpretation of a selected idiom and have classmates try to guess what that idiom is.

Objectives
Students will:
· Recognize idioms in a sentence.
· Use idioms in context in writing and speaking.

IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts
Standard 4: Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
Standard 6: Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.

Materials Needed
· WordTeasers: Idioms
· Drawing paper and crayons

Getting Started
Ask students if they have ever heard the expression: “take the bull by the horns.” What do they think that means? Do they think that it means to literally grab a bull by its horns? Why or why not? What do they think the saying really means? (Take charge; confront a problem head on.) Where do they think that saying came from?

Development
Explain to students that there are many phrases in English that don’t mean exactly what the individual words mean. These phrases are called idioms. Write this sentence on the board: “I’ll eat my hat if I don’t get an A on the spelling test.” Call on a volunteer to identify the idiomatic expression in that sentence. What does the phrase mean literally? What does the idiomatic phrase mean? (To bet with confidence on the outcome of something.)

WordTeasers: Idioms Activity
Divide the class into pairs. Pass the WordTeasers: Idioms box around the room Let each pair of students select a WordTeaser: Idioms Challenge Card from the box. Tell students to work together in pairs to draw a literal interpretation of their idiom (e.g., “egg on your face”). Then let each pair of students show their drawing to the class. Can the class guess what the idiom is? Have students write a sentence using that idiom. Finally, ask volunteer to answer some of the WordTeasers: Idioms Challenge questions (e.g., “Tell about a time you had egg on your face.”)

Next Week: Help Your Students Score Big with Vocabulary

Source: WordTeasers: Idioms — An educational game designed to get kids talking, laughing, thinking, writing…and improving language arts skills. Ages 9+ . Available at Schoodoodle.com

Free Parent Involvement Activities - "Blow, Blow, and There it Goes!" - Grade Preschool

Cause & Effect

Cut a circular hole, two inches in diameter, at one end of a shoebox lid. Invert the lid and tape it in place on one side to make a hinged lid.

Place a cotton ball at the opposite end from the hole and ask your child to try to blow the cotton ball toward the hole until it drops in. Let him try blowing other items into the hole (a dry kidney bean, bottle cap, piece of macaroni, etc.).

CAUTION: Monitor your child closely during this activity. Small items can pose a choking hazard.

SOURCE: Bright and Beyond, Smart & Simple Preschool Activities to do with your Child, Ages 3-5. Available at Schoodoodle.com.

Free Parent Involvement Activities - "Charts" - Grades 1-3

Graphing/Charts, Data Manipulation

Encourage your child to ask at least ten people (family, friends, neighbors, etc.) the following (or similar) questions:

What is your favorite color?

What is your favorite kind of pet?

Do you think we will ever colonize the moon? Yes or no?

How tall are you?

The answers to these questions can be visually illustrated by using a bar chart or pie chart. Help your child plot his results on the chart and then "analyze" them. What are the top three colors and pets? How did the moon colonization vote turn out? How tall is everyone, on average?

It can be fun to create a "report" of the results to share with the participants.

SOURCE: Bright and Beyond, Smart & Simple Math Activities to do with your Child, Ages 5-9, K-3rd. Available at Schoodoodle.com.

In U.S. Classrooms, 'Tech Sherpas' Assist Teachers With Computers

Doran Smestad walks through the empty gym to the office in the back corner.

The high school sophomore's mission: to recover an important file that physical education teacher Jim DiFrederico can't seem to open on his new Macintosh laptop.

It's a typical call for students known around the halls of Nokomis Regional High School in Maine as "tech sherpas."

Whether they fell in love with computers when they were 2, as Doran did, or when the state of Maine issued them a laptop in seventh grade, the digital world is so familiar to these teens that they can guide their teachers up some steep learning curves.

Within a few minutes, Doran has a file open on screen and asks, "Is this what you need?" With a relieved smile, DiFrederico gives him a pat on the shoulder.

"Something that would take me a couple hours, they can do it in five minutes," he says. The timesaving for teachers is a big plus, but it's not the main point of this informal program in rural Maine.

For students who are keen to keep up with technology, helping adults is a way to broaden their own experience and practice communication.

As American schools look to incorporate 21st-century technologies into everyday lessons, some teachers are intimidated by technical glitches or the prospect of being left behind in a generational divide.

Teachers have even become targets of cyberbullying, with students taking secret videos of an angry or embarrassing moment in class and posting them on popular websites such as YouTube.

But this district and many others are trying to foster more collaboration – staving off problems by putting students' enthusiasm to constructive use.

To view the complete article, click here.

(The Christian Science Monitor 11.29.07)

Free Teacher Quote - "A Candle"

All the darkness in the world cannot
extinguish the light of a single candle.

Quote by: St. Francis of Assisi

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Posters for your classroom are always an inspiration for your students. Here's a link to help find the one for your class.

Teen Talk: The Gift of Time for You and Your Teen

How often are you telling your teens to turn off the TV or stop playing computer games so they can complete homework, come to dinner, do chores, go to sleep, get ready for school?

How many times a day are you arguing with your kids about the amount of TV/computer time they spend?

Every day? Several Times a Day? All the Time?

How many hours do your teens watch TV orplay computer each day?

If your child watches 4 hours of TV/day...(The national average is between 3 and 5hours per day.)

That is 32 hours/week...134 hours/month...1664 hours/year or 69 days per year!

Now answer this:

How many hours per day does your teen spend reading?How many hours per day does your teen spend creatively doing art, building things, writing, playing non electronics?How many hours per day is your teen playing sports?

Now you do the math. How does your teen's unplugged time compare with his or her plugged in time?

Perhaps you noticed that TV/Computer time far outweighs the other activities your teens are involved in. You already read and know that kids who watch a lot of TV tend to be less healthy. (Sitting, not exercising,eating lots of snacks when they watch,aren't focusing well in school and on homework...etc.. )

So, if this is your teen and you want your teen to have more time to be healthy, creative and tuned into academics here is where you can start...

I have developed a program just for you called...

The Sunday Night Through ThursdayNight No TV Rule.

During the week have the teens earn points towards TV/Computer time.

Use poker chips or pennies to symbolize minutes of time and use and reward for:

=> chores

=> reading

=> completing homework

=> whatever else you want them to do more of

Let them save their chips for the weekend but remember...before you start giving out chips decide how much time you really want them watching between Friday and Sunday afternoons and calculate accordingly.

While you are at it...take a look at your own TV viewing. How many days and years of your life have been in front of the TV? What else could you be doing with your time? What have you been putting off or doing for lack of time?

For more ideas on how to get more time for you and your teens...here is my gift to you...

My newly released parenting book...

The Take Back Your Parenting Power System: How to Get Control of Your Kids in 30 Days or Less: The Secret Formula

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Feel free to forward this email to your friends and give them the gift of time, too, this Holiday Season.

Wishing You a Peaceful Home and a Peaceful Holiday Season,

Your Parent Coach,

Susan

FREE PARENT INVOLVEMENT ACTIVITY - "Can You Figure?" - Grade 1 to 3

Calculation

Write down five numbers and pose questions to your child for him to solve.

For example:

11 6 8 9 2

1. The sum of which two numbers is 13?

2. The difference between which two numbers is 6?

3. The sum of which two numbers is 14?

4. The difference between which two numbers is 5?

5. the sum of which three numbers is 21?

6. The sum of which four numbers is 30?

7. Which two numbers, when multiplied equal 48?

Source: Bright and Beyond, Smart & Simple Activities to do with your Child, Math, Grades K-3rd, Ages 5-9. Available at Schoodoodle.com. For more math activities, click on this link.

FREE PARENT INVOLVEMENT ACTIVITY - "Blanket Fun" - Age 2

Large Motor Skills, Hand-Eye Coordination, Imagination

Blanket Toss: Put a small stuffed toy or ball in the middle of a baby blanket (or towel) on the floor. Have your child hold two corners of the blanket while you hold the other two. Then, both of you lift the blanket, toss the toy up in the air, and catch it again in the blanket.

Blanket Fort: Drape blankets or sheets over chairs and tables to create a special hideaway for your child. She can pretend it is a fort or a tent.

CAUTION: Monitor your child closely during these activities.

Source: Bright and Beyond, Smart & Simple Activities to do with your Child, Age 2, 24-36 months. Available at Schoodoodle.com. For a fun activity book, click on this link.

For Toddlers, Toy of Choice Is Tech Device

Cellphones, laptops, digital cameras and MP3 music players are among the hottest gift items this year—for preschoolers.

Toy makers and retailers are filling shelves with new tech devices for children ages 3 and up, and sometimes even down.

They say they are catering to junior consumers who want to emulate their parents and are not satisfied with fake gadgets.

Consider the “hottest toys” list on Amazon.com, which includes the Easy Link Internet Launch Pad from Fisher-Price (to help children surf on “preschool-appropriate Websites”) and the Smart Cycle, an exercise bike connected to a video game. Jim Silver, editor of Toy Wishes magazine and an industry analyst for 24 years, said there had been “a huge jump in the last 12 months” in toys that involve looking at a screen.

“The bigger toy companies don’t even call it the toy business anymore,” Mr. Silver said. “They’re in the family entertainment business and the leisure business. What they’re saying is, ‘We’re vying for kids’ leisure time.’ ”

Technology has been slowly permeating the toy business for a number of years, but the trend has been accelerating. On Wednesday, six of the nine best-selling toys for 5- to 7-year-olds on Amazon.com were tech gadgets.

For all of 2006, three of the top nine toys for that age group were tech-related. The trend concerns pediatricians and educators, who say excessive screen time stifles the imagination. But more traditional toys — ones without computer monitors, U.S.B. cables and memory cards — are seen by many children as obsolete.

To view the complete article, click here.

(New York Times 11.29.07) Please note: A free registration is required to view this article.

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Chicago School Supply is Illinois Textbook Loan Vendor # 399

Chicago School Supply is an approved vendor for the Illinois Textbook Loan Program (Vendor # 399).

DOWNLOAD a FREE copy of our 2008 Illinois Textbook Loan Program catalog.

Browse our Illinois Textbook Loan Program selection of Curriculum Mastery Game Learning Systems from New Path Learning.

The New Path Learning games offer comprehensive coverage of current state and national curriculum standards.

The board game-based learning system covers language arts, math, and social studies for grades 1-6 (grades 1-8 are available, but only 1-6 are approved for the 2008 Illinois Textbook Loan Program - grades 7-8 will be available for the 2009 Program).

Each game is specifically developed to meet current national and state standards and was written by teachers using research-based principles and have been tested in the classroom.

All games are leveled by topic and readability. There are enough materials for up to 36 students to play simultaneously.

The flexible design accommodates lesson times from 5 – 30+ minutes. Standard rules and game board configuration maximize productive learning time. There are easy-to-follow instructions and minimal setup requirements – from box to play in less than one minute!

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Free Teacher Quote - "Losing Yourself"

A man who has never lost himself
in a cause bigger than himself has
missed one of life's mountaintop experiences.
Only in losing himself does he find himself.
Only then does he discover
all the latent strengths he never knew he had
and which otherwise would have remained dormant.


Quote by: Richard M. Nixon

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