“We cannot change the world altogether in one go, but we can have an effect, one act at a time, one day at a time, one person at a time. That is what it is, intimates Maimonides, to be awake: to know that our acts make a difference, sometimes all the difference in the world.”
(from To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility, by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, p.233)
The faces are engaged, enthusiastic, excited--whether on the children, parents, or teachers. Being a teacher, an educator, a parent, requires of us the belief that Sacks so eloquently states--that not only can each of us have an impact on another, but we cannot help but to have an effect. To that end, may we keep the hopes, dreams, and enthusiasms of this first day in our hearts to feed our needs as the year progresses.
And may we never forget that "our acts make a difference, sometimes all the difference in the world."
1 comment:
I love this quote. Sometimes we feel that we need to do big things to change the world, but it is indeed the one-at-a-time acts that make the difference.
It was really nice to meet you last evening!
Janet Knoll
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