QUOTE OF THE WEEK :
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." Helen Keller
In studying History and the great men and women of the past there are certain character traits and virtues that each have. We have been introducing these virtues to the children, the people who have these virtues present and past, and reading biographical excerpts from these people's lives in order to give them examples of how to incorporate these virtues into their own lives. Last week we talked about perseverance and how nothing would happen for good in the world if people were afraid to try, or if they gave up at the first sign of difficulty. We talked about Abraham Lincoln and how many times he lost elections, and how many times his idea to abolish slavery was defeated. But in the end his perseverance allowed him to be successful. Great people like him, Helen Keller, Harriet Tubman and others have persevered, and because of them, have blessed the lives of others for generations
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