from a great message board
"What are the top 2-5 things that you really want your kids to learn?"
I've pondered this since I read it. The first comes easily, but what else ranks in that top 2-5?
1. Ambition. Ambition to try things without being afraid. To pursue the big dreams as well as the little things. Ambition to master something, follow what calls them, create what they envision.
2. Observation. Remember to watch and think. Use the information that is all around us. Make connections. Understand a deeper thread throughout existance.
3. Philosophy. Develop a personal moral code that jibes with their hearts as well as the world around them - and the hard part - living by it.
4. Joy. Finding the things that give it all meaning. The things that (to quote a friend) make the stars shine a little brighter & the air smell a little sweeter.
5. For number five I'll throw in academics. That is why we need school, right? ;)
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