Teaching
"Is the purpose of a teacher to flunk a student? Tell him what he doesn't know? No. It is to tell him what he needs…
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Creator
My kids love Legos. I didn't have many growing up--now we have dozens of sets. I've always preferred following the little instruction book. There's a…
Keep your cool
With emotion in his voice, my friend told me a story of one of his mentors--a science professor. One day, this man's office was drenched…
Chivalry
C. S. Lewis defines chivalry as a combination of sternness and meekness. The knights of old were to strive toward this ideal--of being a courageous…
Courage
I've heard it said that courage and cowardice are hard to predict. That some, assumed to be brave, don't hold up. And others, assumed to…
Antiseptic
No one likes cleaning out a wound with antiseptic. It stings. Little kids learn pretty quickly that they don't love it when grown-ups want to…
JTB
There's an important character in the Bible called John the Baptist. He's not "the Baptist" because be belonged to any Baptist denomination or church. He…
Mirrors
"Don't imagine that I've been selected to go...because I'm anyone in particular. One never can see, or not till long afterwards, why any one was…
Listen, and speak.
"If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the…
On jargon
"Jargon makes the patient feel stupid." This was a quote from one of our Cedarville nursing professors that actually made it onto the back of…