I have been told that teachers often remain a bit like children because that is who they deal with every day.
I am not sure that this is meant as a compliment but let us assume it is.
It is easy to assume the positive because being childlike has certain advantages.
For example:
I also think that sometimes what we adults consider childish can be a source of great wisdom. Take, for example, the wisdom buried in children’s books.
For example:
Let us accept that growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional.
In a world that seems to want children to morph into young adults at an increasingly young age, with all the negatives that can come with that, perhaps we should celebrate childishness in children and keep a bit of that unspoiled view of the world for our adult selves.
Particularly when our world seems so full of crisis, pain, danger and an almost crushing sense of doom. Should we make a choice to retain a little of our childlike self instead of becoming fully “grown up”.
We have a choice:
The adult view
Or…..The childlike (tiger) view
“A land of fairy tales and good things, is all a child will dream all day.
And while he’s young he’ll have no reason to cry for someone gone away.
See the clown who makes the children laugh, as he spins around and
Shows them all his tricks.
Oh how I wish I were a little boy again, living in a child’s dream.”
Worth considering.
Terry Muldoon
Principal
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