"The evil that men do lives after them."
-Henry David Thoreau
Every Thursday I give my kids a journal entry in which they have to respond to a quote by Thoreau. Mostly they are baffled (poor illiterate souls, God bless 'em) but today they had some good ideas to respnd with.
For instance, most kdis agreed but a few disagreed and here's why: If you tell a lie it won't affect people who live after you. If you smoke a cigarette once (as I'm typing this, two boys are going to jail for smoking pot in the bleachers today...how cliche) nothing will happen to other people because of it.
One of the "agree" kids said that "people don't often realize what they say affects others so much"
Words of wisdom if I've ever heard any.
-tha angry teacher
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