Teachers Don’t Make Heroes out of Hope ~ We Make them Happen out of Hard Work Forged in the Fires of Pushing Ourselves to our Limits
But getting our students to achieve a Level 3 in school is only helping them become successful in school.
Where the real fun begins, and the test of your heart and that deep body-building type of strength, is at the Level 4 and above:
What wakes me and taps into my hunger to do this is creating levels based on some of the “School of Athens” greatest thinkers and achievers
LEVEL 4 ~ Enheduanna, Sappho, and Hypatia; three women of ancient history that allows me to give powerful, irrefutable evidence to the girls, and boys in class that women can be just as great as any man and can work just as hard to achieve it.
These three women alone cover almost 3,000 years of history (2300 BCE - 415 CE) and have taught or inspired greatness in others, such as…..
LEVEL 5 ~ The Seven Sages of Delphi, who taught/inspired….
LEVEL 6 ~ Socrates, who taught/inspired…..
LEVEL 7 ~ Plato, who taught/inspired…..
LEVEL 8 ~ Aristotle, who tutored.inspired…..
LEVEL 9 ~ Alexander the Great, who inspired……
LEVEL 10 ~ Hannibal, who teaches and inspires us to either find a way or make one!
This is the level I feel I have to get them to. This is the level that will set them free today, tomorrow, and forever.
But this is the level that challenges me the most and makes me want to quit the most out of feeling the most exhaustion and frustration, not with them but with me not being smart enough yet to get them here.
Getting them excited and to want it is easy. Getting them to be able to do it is hard.
And if I’m not hard enough to push myself to a physical, emotional, and mental LEVEL 10 what is the reality of me being able to push them and get them there?
Teachers don’t make heroes out of hope. We make them happen out of hard work forged in the fires of pushing ourselves to our limits.
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