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Here is a nice video about Harriet Tubman:
Harriet Tubman’s Legacy 1820-1913 (RIP) **A AMAZING WOMAN OF COURAGE!!**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cUTKTWkbnw&feature=autofb
plus you’ll find other videos there too.
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“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted by admin on January 1, 2011 under Active Organizations, Resources, Teaching With Heroes | Be the First to Comment
We’ve recently found the Role Models program and materials for teaching character education in high (and middle) school.
http://www.characterandleadership.com/
Borrowed from their web site:
“… this character education curriculum provides students with the necessary skills to be successful in all facets of their lives. Students and teachers alike come to rely on the consistent weekly lesson plans of ethical dilemmas, lectures, character movie segments, current events, core readings from The Role Models textbook, basic skills and expository writing assignments.”
Posted by admin on December 30, 2010 under Active Organizations, Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan, Web links | Be the First to Comment
At a plain, black well-pump in the small southern town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, one of the world’s great miracles took place. It began one bright, spring day in 1887. Puffy white clouds floated overhead on a background of blue, while birds fluttered through oaks and maples and flowers burst forth from the fertile soil in an array of colors—all unheard and unseen by a pretty girl of seven.
Standing at the totally blind and deaf Helen Keller’s side was a young woman, Anne Sullivan. Miss Sullivan was steadily pumping cool water into one of the girl’s hands while repeatedly tapping out an alphabet code of five letters in the other—first slowly, then rapidly. The scene was repeated again and again as young Helen painstakingly struggled to break her world of silence.
Suddenly the signals crossed Helen’s consciousness with a meaning. She knew that “w-a-t-e-r” meant the cool something flowing over her hand. Darkness began to melt from her mind like so much ice left out on the sunny March day. By nightfall, Helen had learned 30 words.
Since 1954 Helen Keller’s birthplace has been a permanent shrine to the “miracle” that occurred in a blind and deaf seven-year old girl’s life. At that time Ivy Green was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
http://www.helenkellerbirthplace.org/
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Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree. She graduated from Radcliffe College, with honors, in 1904.
More… http://www.afb.org/braillebug/hkfacts.asp
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Here is a fun web page for kids to explore more about Helen Keller – from the American Foundation for the Blind.
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/hkmuseum.asp
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1. Devote Your Life to a Cause
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”
2. Great People Will Always Encounter Great Opposition
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
3. Make a Decision to See the World as Friendly
“The most important decision we ever make is whether we believe we live in a friendly universe or a hostile universe.”
4. Character Trumps Intellect
“Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
5. Never Ever Stop Learning
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
6. Change the Way You Think
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
7. Serve the World
“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
(Extracted from http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/amazing-life-lessons-you-can-learn-from.html – read the original article for insightful comments on each lesson!)
also titled: “Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein: Part Deux”
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1. Follow Your Curiosity
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
2. Perseverance is Priceless
“It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
3. Focus on the Present
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
4. The Imagination is Powerful
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
5. Make Mistakes
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
6. Live in the Moment
“I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”
7. Create Value
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
8. Don’t Expect Different Results
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
9. Knowledge Comes From Experience
“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”
10. Learn the Rules and Then Play Better
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
(Extracted from: http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/10-amazing-lessons-albert-einstein.html – read the original article for insightful comments on each lesson!)
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“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”— Jonas Salk
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