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I knew a teacher that kept a calendar on his desk. He didn__ use it for lesson planning though. Instead he was marking time until summer. That__ what prisoners do on walls. They mark the days until they go free. But if you__e marking time as a teacher, you aren__ redeeming the time with your students. A parent drops a child off at the beginning of the year and it__ your job to redeem the time and educate that child. It__ your responsibility to see that child progress throughout the year. The child should be a better student as a result of being in your classroom. You are responsible__or successes and failures__nd you have an obligation to students and parents to redeem every precious minute you__e given as an educator.

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Finally, let me share a feeling of mine, I hope it will not be misinterpreted as pride. I am seventy four now. But still, if they give me a duty in the wooden hut where I used to stay when I was a mentor long years ago, I will gladly run there and try to fulfill that duty. Perhaps, some of our friends can see that task as a simple and trivial one. But I have not underestimated this duty and would never do so. Even today, some people may consider our having lessons with the small circle of young scholars here as a simple and trivial job. However, in my opinion, this is the most important occupation that can take human to the highest levels.

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M. Fethullah Gülen

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My students still don't know what they will never be. Their hope is so bright I can almost see it.I used to value the truth of whether this student or that one would achieve the desired thing. I don't value that truth anymore as much as I value their untested hope. I don't care that one in two hundred of them will ever become what they feel they must become. I care only that I am able to witness their faith in what's coming next.I no longer believe in anything other than the middle, but my students still believe in beginnings. Ask them, and they will tell you that everything is about to start in just a moment, just one more moment.

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Sarah Manguso

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary