6 hours agoAbraham Lincoln's letter sent to his son's teacher
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)One of the most esteemed American presidents, Abraham Lincoln, had sent his son to the first grade in 1830. Lincoln had found it necessary to write his son's teacher and help him educate his sentence. You are the letter he had addressed to his son's teacher: [...]
Lincoln had found it necessary to write his son's teacher and help him educate his sentence.
You're the letter he had addressed to his son's teacher:
My son starts school today. After a while, everything will be strange and new, so I'd like you to treat it gently.
It's an adventure he'll take with him across all continents.
Such adventures that may involve wars, tragedies, and disasters. Living this life, you need faith, love, and courage.
So, dear Teacher, I'd like you to use it and teach it things that you'll need to know, teach it but gently, if you can.
Learn that for every enemy there is a friend.
He will have to learn that not all people are right, that not all people are honest. However, teach him that for every page there is a hero and that for every selfish politician, a dedicated leader lives.
Learn if you can that 10 cents are much more valuable
that a dollar found. At school, teacher, it's much more honest
fail to cheat.
Teach him how to lose decently, and how to enjoy victory when he wins.
Teach him to be kind to good people and harsh with harsh people. Try to stay as far away from envy as you can, and learn the secret of a genuine smile.
Learn it if possible how to laugh when it is sad and that shedding tears is no shame at all.
Learn that there can be an honest failure and shameful victories.
Learn to mock the Cynics.
Learn it if it can detect the miracle of reading books, but also give it sufficient time to see the eternal mystery of flying birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and flowers on a green hill.
Learn about this belief in his ideas even if everyone says they're wrong.
Try to teach my son the strength not to follow the crowd even when they all run after the victors.
Teach him to listen attentively to every man, but also to see all that he hears in the Web site of truth, and to take only the good.
Teach him how to sell his talent and intelligence to the highest bidder, but never accept any kind of price for the soul and heart.
Let him have the courage to be impatient.
Let him have the patience to be brave.
Teach him to trust in himself based, for then he will always have subliminal trust in mankind and in God.
These are requests, teachers, but you do the best you can.
He's a good little kid. And he's my son.
