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Shaping the future.(PRESIDENT'S CORNER)(American Association of School Administrators)

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From: School Administrator
Date: 20070901
Author:Jerome, Sarah D.

Several years ago at an AASA National Conference on Education, former Secretary of Education Richard Riley, a great friend to education and to this association, shared a poem from East Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore:

 
   I slept and dreamt that life was joy. 
   I awoke and found that life was duty. 
   I acted--and behold--duty was joy.

Duty and joy are interwoven with our every action and thought. Their balances shift at times, sometimes weighing more heavily toward one or the other, but sometimes so intertwined as to be indistinguishable. Such is the case when I think ...

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