the word teacher has its roots in the Latin word meaning to lead or to draw out.

Self-respect is the most important thing a person can have. Dressed impeccably.

I know most of you cannot spell your name, I promise you that you will. None of you has ever failed. Well, goodbye to failure, welcome to suceess. You will read hard books in here and understand what you read. You will write everyday so that writing becomes second nature to you.

The first thing we are going to do in here is an awful lot of believing in ourselves.

Self Reliance by Emerson

Self reliance is the most important things a student, especially a black student, could ever learn.

Don't ever be afraid of making a mistake. If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

How many of you wander why things happen the way they do?

Well, I think most of you think life is wonderful. Everyone always has enough to eat, a good place to live. There's no suffering, no poverty...

Of course, you don't. Every time you say' That's not fair' or you wonder why something is the way it is, you are questioning life.

He believed that every person has a free will and can choose to make his life the way he wants it to be. I believe that. I believe that you can make your life anything you want it to be.

So you think this work is too difficult for you? Well, do not expect to do baby work in here. School can teach you how to lead a good life. We all come here to make a better life. And the knowledge you put in your heads is going to save whom? You, not me.

Mr. Emerson is telling us to trust our own thoughts, to think for ourselves and not worry about what other people tell us to think.

If you don't think for yourself, other people will tell you what to think.

First she had to convince the children she cared about them, convince them to trust her, and make them believe they could do anything they wanted to do.