"Rock the boat. She won't sink. In fact, she sail farther. Complacency becalms and even endangers the casual sailor. Educators can't afford anything less than vigilant attention to progress, regular examinations of all we do." (Rick Wormeli, The Collected Writings, 2013)
If you aren't moving forward, you are falling behind. Teachers, administrators and parents have to help their students challenge themselves and keep moving forward. We have to rock the boat. Life for our children is moving forward around them and it can be rocky. We have to prepare them to adapt and adjust to this movement and rockiness. We cannot have them do as we did, because when it worked for us, it was a different time. However we support them, do it moving forward balancing ourselves through the rockiness.
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