Tag: Education

Today is Perfect.

Success is difficult.

The process is strenuous, tiresome, and often boring. Becoming a great student, teacher, mother, father, businessman, lawyer, doctor, etc., etc., etc. – is slow, gradual, and heavy. Please don’t misunderstand me. If you choose the path to success, you will enjoy small triumphs along the way. Greatness is achievable for us all, however shortcuts do not exist.

Secrets do not exist. The right information is paramount, but information without action is worthless. Action, combined with time is how we escape mediocrity.

Today is Sunday which marks the beginning of a new week. Today is the perfect day to build new behaviors and form new habits. Today is the perfect day for us to ignore average and increase our work ethic.

We get out of life what we put into it. If we want extraordinary results, we must put in extraordinary work.

Let’s begin today.

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The True Reasons Teens Skip School

The Three Main Reasons Teenagers Skip School:

  • Sex
  • Drugs
  • Alcohol

When students skip school, it’s probably not to play video games or go to the library. Moreover, your child probably didn’t skip school because they are victims of bullying.

If your child’s reason is not sex, drugs, or alcohol, be VERY skeptical of their excuse.

Brutal Truth.

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Respect the Student

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Respect the student by showing up totally prepared. Respect the student by welcoming questions you can’t answer.

Respect the student by expecting their very best. Respect the student by demanding their very best.

Respect the student by NOT honoring  their excuses.

Respect the student with your language and your tone.

Respect the student by dressing like your craft matters.

Respect the student and most of the time, the student will respect you. Sometimes they won’t, but that’s why they are students.

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Teach them…

“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” -Colleen Wilcox

If you believe in someone, teach them something. Teach them something truly valuable.

Teach them something that will make them successful.

Teach them something that will liberate them from any cage – figuratively, literally, or self imposed.

Teach them something that will keep them out of prison and protect their children from poverty.

Teach them something that will give them full control over the wolf that sleeps within them.

If you believe in someone, teach them something that is timeless.

That “something” is DISCIPLINE.

 

Maurice Guest Jr., is an education administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas.