kind of hom . I'm no ta- . tic" . I am a teac cr. I am there to t ch, I'm there to reach every child. I am there to pro that ry child can, if I do not m e it uncomfortab e that he can't. I am there to gm faith to th children ho - m y dare no to hope. I am there to let children kno th t I give you my 10 , my pport, but your o thoughts mu t al ays be full your n. ithout I m there to stir th hope of tho people ho might dare not to hope • • than hat it - n . In fact I ent ithout being paid 1 mon tho Salarie come from t ork op en men that I do. E ry child to ate him If and tell something that he h learned that day. ew the - , be - e each child all day ery day to rernedia their erro inunediately before they become per- m nt 0 - h - hy e get aD the learning di iIi - in our 001 them they hem de an error. Any educator ho thinks that they r goin to teach children to read ith the four the 00 ith four ye "Every child is taught that he is born to win, if he does not let someone tell him that he can't." I given all the mone from the mo - b to the hool. Be of system I've turned down million doll for start- ing 100 arv Collin, Inc. schools this past Septern- I' turned do the Re gan Secretary of Educa­ tion (po t). I had to e home beca the reporters re sitting on my door­ step and the Reagan admin­ - tration as constantly cal .. ling. So e had to flee the country t Christm time so e could f csimile of peace. Right no 1 been ed to June 5, . I h also agreed to rve on th Pre· f and Advisory, only eaJIN. director - 0 money, no p � _ hich give me the free- dom to y hat I plea . ..... nta. of Ca- Our children are ��,...Dftt W'IIiIIfttI D8Cl1DIe reCllMlJd 1'4 ...... "-. taught that it - better to die on your feet than to beg on yoor ees, That', E ry child - ught or e h m de error. . out my ing there to that b - bom to -, if They will not continually ¥ that you can; there ] he does not let e that error if e ar nothing - thiI 0 d that tell him th t he can't. there all the time to remind you cannot do. y of the time that told dren that they canno win, many of us do not kno h to ourselves. Repeatedly 1 children come in ere en ha written them off; system ha written them off. And the bi e t problem, more than ach­ - g them, - telling th m th t ey can, e each de e ery d y, not to get that re u fervor one day, and not do it again the ne t day. Oh, I'm going to be a ry good teacher today, but Tuesday, edne ay, Thursday, Friday I don't feel very ell. Children can expect that we kno what's o to happen every day, every year at th tim . e add to it. e hope that get better teache the next day. But every day they are expected to make that day just a little bit better than the pre- day. Ye no secrets re- medical, dental ith my monie be half of our children can't pay. Someone - 0 me out - e, but you get monic from til par­ rents. There are no monies to Ft, again, in e Gar­ field Park. I kne th t. eng gements the country every day and my ould c:ertainJy be e INVEST 0 E SATURDAY A MD TH TOWARD A COLLEGE DEGREE Aquinas College's exciting DIRECliED STUDY PRO­ GRAM is designed for highly-motivated adults ose work schedules or borne locations do not permit regular class attendance. Learn more by attending ... INFORMATION SESSIO Saturday, December 12 10:00 a.m. Loutit Room in Wege Student Center on campus tJse entrance in 1600 block of E. Fulton Street and they're no Ion r learning disability . If child - lling they t-h- -y, and I am itting behind my utopian d ,and there's child . tting in the b ro spelling they, t-h- -y, to red mark that paper and give it b to that child o or three day later do not mean ry much to a small child. It ouldn't mean very much to me either, so I' m e an error, so be it. That's my philosphy - th re's no need to cry over spilled to ere teo The children h e of negat- e will find mething to �. 'That's a very good paper, but le ' proofread this.' e're destroying eire in proofre - error. If it become a permanent reminder in his mind that t really frighte me letters come from allegedly pr tigious are : e Hampshire, Con- necticut tts the pi s e ould 1 a ex­ pect to find problem - I really feel that h t - h ppening n i e are all beginning to cho e Continued in on over do of illiteracy. 's Citizen. good cornprehen 'on - F­ of all in th 1800 th 100 - y m thod devolved for children ho could not hear and th t the picture clu of con- notation there of th p- ture and that the child im e. n iate picture - th the ord. It s re y not de e p­ ed for children ho could he and . Ho it e er cam to be u in our schools there d de 0 I ill ne er kno _ If e will atch, e r since the 100 - y m thod came into vogu children dca- n the country - 13,000 1 t· ten be out fo this - ce April 14, desperate all y children. m y peop h cribed me, or er. I peop of this think a miracl thin next For more information, call collect (616) 459-a281, ext. 309 CLASSES BEGI JANUARY 16 If a college degree is one of your goals, eire eager to elp you reach it.