Thoughts for the day:

• If some children matter more to us than others, than all children are valued only conditionally.
• To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aimes of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. - Martin Luther King Jr.
• If we want our students to trust that we care for them, then we need to display our affection without demanding that they behave or preform in certain ways in return. It's not that we don't want and expect certain behaviors; we do. But our concern or affection does not depend on it.