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| Photo of Joseph Andrieux's classroom |
You don't know where you'll land
Its so dark in mythology
Treasures of history to be found
Near the legends of time
All the handiworks remain there
Only a dream away"
Lyrics from "Dream Away", George Harrison, 1981
In my early years, I never thought of what I needed to become an astronaut. I just wanted to become one. Later, as I got older, I wanted to become a fighter pilot and fly in the blue sky. As I became much older in my teens, I started to fear that I was going to have responsibilities and dreaming of remarkable things was soon going to be over. I did not want this to happen. I wanted to go back in time, start all over again, and stay there in that moment of happiness.
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Songwriter and former Beetles' singer - George Harrison, wrote and recorded lyrics to "Dream Away" stating that we all go through hard times. We need to devote our lives in pursuing a joyful life through dedicating ourselves to our family and ourselves. We need to improve ourselves through knowledge and experience.
As an educator and a Full Sail graduate student, I have learned that we are dedicated to share. We need to share what we know so others may go further and do the same. That is how we grow. George Harrison was perceived as philosophical and enlightened because of his music. It could have been because he was diagnosed with throat and brain cancer. He may have felt that with the little time that he had left, he did not accomplish anything. Time simply ran out.
We cannot go back in time. Time simply moves forward. As we move on, we need to look at how we educate our students. Are we using all the tools available that will allow them a fair chance to compete or are we simply going through the motions, because we ran out of time. If you make the decision to keep changing people's lives as I have learned through Full Sail, then you are granting greatness to others.
2 comments:
Joseph,
Thank you so much for this rejuvenating post. I think that I speak for many educators when I say that sometimes our wells do run dry. We face many challenges with a smile that is often hiding a cup that is half empty. You've shown that we always need to look at the cup as half full. When we give our best to our students, we fill that cup daily.
Thank you again for highlighting the joy of being able to work in our profession.
poor slugs, what did they do to earn the wrath of the evil being. Funny stuff. Ah but we can and do time travel whenever we write about the past or the future. We cannot literally change anything but we can explore and learn, which is, I guess the whole point.
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