When we look back at our state as once the envy of the country in terms of education, it is depressing to think about California’s current education system. From what I gathered in the report, there is a need to provide goals and direction for CA’s education. It’s time to look back at the Master Plan of Education and for us to provide a promising vision for our youth. Get your act together California, you are deteriorating.
Something the students might need to know about before August comes around.
This is link is for the graduates. Her message about integrity, imagination, failure, and empathy is something that should resonate. Please remember your responsibility, your power, and your compassion. I dare you to achieve greatness =).
Simply making a commitment to equality is not enough. In order to create equality and empathy, you must develop solidarity with each community as if they were your own. Understand each communities particularities, what their struggles are, or even what they do on a friday night. If you want to understand Pilipinos, you gotta go to PCN. If you want to understand American Indians, then you go to Pow Wow. By starting to acknowledge that we don’t know one another, we can then move towards our quest to true humanity.
– An alumni who gave me a wake up callThis is Tim Ngubeni, who basically started the Community Programs Office. As a student he started the movement of UCs divesting from South Africa and its apartheid regime. An amazing man, who promoted self-love, compassion, and integrity. There’s a part 2 as well.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
I think we should make it a goal for all of us, to address one unhealthy relationship, personal or professional. I think it will help all of us. I noticed the fear about addressing our relationships was more about the result as opposed to the process. Problem: My parents are fighting all the time, and it makes me not want to go home. Starting Solution: Communicate with our parents about how its affecting us. Problem to solution: What if my parents think I’m trying to them how to do their jobs as parents. The way to think about this is not worrying about the results but what should the process looks like to the solution. So our solution was to communicate how we feel to our parents (process), but we didn’t want to do this b/c of the what our parents will think (result). In the post-grad discussion, our solution was getting to know who we are and talking to alumni who reflect our experiences (process), but we’re afraid of not having a job after college so we should look job pathways that you can into as opposed to finding job pathways that will fit your passions and values (result). Start seeing this in our lives and I feel we will move in a better direction. Most of the time our growth happens during the journey not the destination. Lets make it a goal to change an healthy relationship!! Who’s with me? =)
What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
– The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
