Hard Work and Responsibility

The beginning of the semester...pep talks for students...reminders for myself...

"...there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."
--Barack Obama, Inaugural Address 2009

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."
-- S. J. Perelman

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
-- Chinese Proverb