You have the chance to represent God's love and the church for young people, to demonstrate that you can be an educated, thinking person, and also believe in a spiritual dimension.
The danger, of course, in the rush to privatize education is not only that educating students holistically is being sacrificed on the altar of management efficiency, but also that the business world's love of cheap labor is inducing decisions that devalue the importance of educating thinking citizens.
"I think they started doing a little bit more research and educating themselves and thinking: 'You know what, these don't look like your standard house cat.'" San Antonio Animal Care Services spokeswoman Lisa Norwood told local TV station KENS 5 on Monday.
In truth, amateur and professional leagues want their players pliant and obedient, not particularly well educated and free thinking.
It's marketing, it's sales, it's promoting, educating, it's thinking about the weather and science.
Can one imagine that woman saying of someone, "She's an African-American, you know, but she's an educated African-American"? "Thinking," or an equivalent term like "independent," is usually a code word.
Because if it is, thinking, educated people should consider leaving.
I'm trying to create a new aristocracy getting these kids educated out of thinking the worse they are, the better they are.
"They are educating critical thinking and creative minds and that is not at all reflected on these tests," said Nick Gottlieb, co-president of the school's PTA and a father of two students.
This will help to create a better educated, deeper thinking, problem-solving, forward-looking, and powerful workforce for the twenty-first century.
