If you can hear the whispering about you

And never yield to deal in whispers, too;

If you can bravely smile when loved ones doubt you,

And never doubt, in turn, what loved ones do;

 

If you can keep a sweet and gentle spirit

In spite of fame or fortune, rank or place,

And though you win your goal or only near it

Can win with poise or lose with equal grace;

 

If you can meet with unbelief, believing,

And hallow in your heart a simple creed,

If you can meet deception, undeceiving,

And learn to look to God for all you need;

 

If you can be what girls should be to mothers--

Chums in joy and comrades in distress;

And be unto others as you'd have the others

Be unto you--no more and no less;

 

If you can keep within your heart the power

To say that firm, unconquerable "no";

If you can brave a present shadowed hour

Rather than yield, to build a future slow;

 

If you can love, yet not let loving master,

But keep yourself within your own self's clasp,

And net let dreaming lead you to disaster

Nor pity's fascination loose your grasp;

 

If you can lock your heart on confidences

Nor ever needlessly in your turn confide;

If you can put behind you all pretenses

Of mock humility or foolish pride;

If you can keep the simple homely virtue

Of walking right with God--then have no fear

That anything in all the world can hurt you;

AND--which is more-- You'll be a Woman, dear.

-Gale Baker Stanton

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the most significant differences between Thomas Jefferson Education and other classical styles of education has to do with the belief that people, especially children, learn differently at different ages.

 

Thus, there are different phases for learning certain lessons. When the The 7 Keys of Great Teaching are applied with the Phases in mind, it's like hitting the sweet spot - less stress, greater outcomes!