The Office Of The Public Teacher Is

There Is A Universal Element In Man Which He Can Assert By So Acting As If The Purpose Of The Universe Were Also His Purpose. It Is The Function Of The Supreme Ordeals Of Life To Develop In Men This Power, To Give To Their Life This Distinction, This Height Of Dignity, These Vast Horizons.

The Past Speaks To Us In A Thousand Voices, Warning And Comforting, Animating And Stirring To Action.

May The Humanity That Is Within Every Human Being Be Held Precious. The Vice That Underlies All Vices Is That We Are Held Cheap By Others, And Far Worse, That In Our Innermost Soul We Think Cheaply Of Ourselves.

As The Light Of Morning Strikes Now One Peak And Then Another, Some Being Illuminated While Others Are In The Shadow, So The Light Of The Essential Moral Principle Shines Now Upon One Duty And Then Upon Another, While Others Are In The Shadow.

People May Be Said To Resemble The Pieces Of A Puzzle, Each Unique, Yet Each Essential To Bring Out A Complete Picture.