American Education Week: TEACH

As we continue to celebrate American Education Week, today we get to our next letter in “TEACH”:

E = Educate

I had several “E” words in mind as I thought about what to write today: endurance, encourage, engage. But really, when it comes right down to it, there was only one that was the best choice. As teachers we are called to educate children. I love that educate is a verb because there’s definite action in all that a teacher does. I looked up synonyms for educate and here is what I found:

cultivate	develop	enlighten	improve
nurture	instruct	train	coach
edify	foster	mature	inform

As William Butler Yeats said, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

From your Pepper Team, thank you teachers for all of these ways that you actively strive to educate children - to light that fire!

And, another “E” word...enroll. Be sure to enroll in Pepper courses to keep up your own education.

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