#Made chicken pot pie taste exactly right or breathed life into a character or made clothes fit someone's shoulders

[ihaveonlymydreams]

If I was in charge of a school I'd probably make a lot of dumb mistakes but I would also make sure all my students spent at least half their day singing and doing theater and woodwork and lab experiments and cooking for each other and essentially being plunged INTO life instead of just being TOLD about it

#I have so many thoughts #I'm a literature teacher and it's so hard to make boys surrender themselves to images #When their whole lives they've only been told how to think and not shown how to live #How can you love beauty if you've never made harmony or sanded a box as smooth as silk or turned clay into a perfect curve or #Made chicken pot pie taste exactly right or breathed life into a character or made clothes fit someone's shoulders #If the last five years have taught me anything it's that nobody learns to love anything by being told they should #You have to make them become part of it and then they know it #And then they can love it #Anyway I don't feel like the best teacher because I don't always know how to do this with literature #My appreciation of things is so cerebral #It feels like I have to rediscover what I've forgotten of how I came to be here #ANYWAY #Go to sleep Maria challenge