My Education Philosophy

Education is like baseball.  

When we arrive at school (pre-school, kindergarten, wherever), we begin learning the fundamentals of the game.  For baseball, we learn to catch, throw, and run the bases in the proper direction.  We learn about strikes and balls, hits and outs, and we have a lot of fun.  As we continue practicing, those fundamentals allow us to try new things.  We face live pitching, make throws from deep in the outfield, and bunt for base hits. 

Education is no different.  Early on, we learn letters and numbers, colors and shapes, and we have a lot of fun.  In education, we advance grades, switch schools, and graduate.  Just as great ballplayers keep developing their skills throughout their careers, great students use the fundamentals learned early to advance to the big leagues of education.  

In high school, students begin to put the fundamentals they have learned into practice, the major leagues where we play a 175-day season.  We still practice the basics, but we do it in pre-game warm-ups and the batting cages of grammar and usage.  High school is game time, when the basics get put to use in essays, reader-responses, research papers, and discussion.  And if we play the right way, with faith in our fundamental knowledge and a desire to make every game count, we can still have a lot of fun!