“Don’t just have the ambition to be a great engineer, have the ambition to be a great human. Wear your empathy as a badge of honor. It will allow you to do your best work.” David Kelley
Be a great human. It sounds so simple. Yet, it says so much. The world needs more great humans and we can start developing them by bringing empathy back into our schools. It’s easy to see a Facebook feed full of bad news or a trending hashtag of stuff that we need to fix in our society. But what’s hard? Being a great human. Because there will be exhaustion. Giving to others. Service. Hard days. Challenges. Hills to climb. Time to coast.
Next time someone asks you what you teach, you could say, “history,” or “technology,” or even “math.”
Or, you could tell them what you really teach… great humans.
