Remember your
first day at school? Was it scary? traumatic? fun? exciting? or simply forgettable?
Each of us who do can also appreciate all that we've hurdled over at school.
It's not so much the knowledge we've gained - learning that 2+2=4 but all the other
lessons like learning how to make real friends, survive in your peer group or what things
we were good at - that makes all the difference.
A single conversation across
the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. - Chinese
Proverb
Activity: Most families go out
for dinner after the last day of school. During dessert, each member of the family
can give a gift that will be something memorable or useful for his future. It would
also be good to have a few words spoken to honor the new graduate or some wishes,
blessings or prayers for him/her.
What sculpture is to a block of
marble, education is to the soul. - Addison
The nation that has the schools
has the future. - Bismarck
According to surveys, teachers
appreciate homemade cards the most as a means
of saying "thank you".
A wise man gets learning from
those who have none themselves.
One pound of learning requires
ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
If you have knowledge, let
others light their candles at it. - Margaret Fuller
It is better, of course, to
know useless things than to know nothing. - Seneca
Books are embalmed minds. -
C.N. Bovee
A lesson that is never learned
can never be too often taught. - Seneca
For a Great 
means
of saying "thank you".