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I confess I'm a bit of a rebel at heart. Maybe it's my Southern American heritage, or maybe it goes further back in my lineage from my Welsh and Irish ancestry, but wherever it comes from, I tend to eventually have "complicated" relationships with authority. And what makes that more amazing is I started my…

The gradual shift in modern educational philosophy to a “self-esteem” emphasis is complete. From the math standards that discourage teachers from “correcting” incorrect answers to the ball fields where “we don’t keep score” so no one “feels” bad, this shift is now producing consequences of its own. In fact, some have come to call the modern…

William Barclay once said, "Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory." Of course, we've heard this most of our lives. We have to stick with it. We can't give up. We give up just when the breakthrough is coming. And all the other inspirational quotes we…