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Teaching By Example Hero: Danielle
Submitted by My heroine is my 9-year-old niece, Danielle. Recently she moved to Indiana to live with her mother for the school year. In the last three months that I have spent time with her, she has taught me more about life than she can imagine. I thought thi... Read moreTeaching By Example Hero: Manuel
Submitted by Valdora Whitewater My hero is my grandfather Manuel. He is one of the orignal Navajo code talkers. He is still alive. 90 years old. He fought in world war 2 and he has showed me that you can overcome anything. He also was one of the children who went to the horrible... Read moreTeaching By Example Hero: Bessie "Ma Kelly"
Submitted by Scott Kelly My grandmother used to own a restaurant when I was younger. She had about 16 kids herself and never had much money but when the opportunity came for her to work for herself she did. She was a strong Christian woman. All of her food was southern ho... Read moreTeaching By Example Hero: Juana Betty
Submitted by Betty My mother was and still is my hero. She came to the USA because she believed in the American dream. She worked hard day and night to give us, her six children, the life she could only dream of. She taught us to love and forgive and to never give u... Read moreTeaching By Example Hero: J
Submitted by SB When I think of heroes, I think of my sister. Although she is accomplished professionally, it is how she has lived her life that makes her my role model. She has traveled the world, climbed Mt. Everest and Mt. Kilimanjaro, ridden the Rockies, scal... Read more
Personal Stories
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Submitted by Anonymous My name is Joey and I'm 15 years old. Up until I was about 13 years old, I grew up a really unstable home. I failed just about every class I took because I felt like I had no meaning in the world, and I was hanging out with the wrong crowd. Ev... Read moreKindness at the Vet
Submitted by Anonymous In tenth grade, I began volunteering at a veterinary hospital that was run by a family friend in order to get experience for what I thought would be my future job. As it turns out; the experience I gained at the hospital taught me the opposite: th... Read moreThe Connection
Submitted by Anonymous Like most of my fellow actors in New York I was "between jobs" and making ends meet as a lunch waiter in a small high quality Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village. I was a lousy waiter. I enjoyed the customers and didn't mind the work, but my A... Read moreTurn the Corner
Submitted by Anonymous When I was twenty, I won a statewide pageant. Along with the scholarship came the opportunity to be a guest in other pageants and parades, and also to compete for the national title. I felt so happy and blessed each time I read another news clippi... Read moreA 4-Wheel Drive Called Life
Submitted by Anonymous I had just graduated from medical school in India some 5 years ago. It was a time where (like all other classmates) I was standing at the crossroads of my career. Choosing a specialty for a physician is always a difficult decision. Alumni can p... Read more
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE
Quotes
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Personal example carries more weight than preaching.
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE
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Holding The Light
"Teach by Example" is a spot where a simple statement can be profound. Our hero thought that "all he did was hold the light," but now, looking back as an adult, he saw the wisdom his father was sha... Read More
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