Knowledge and Money

I love to read quotes from different people. I especially like ones that inspire and motivate people to be successful. Last night, I came up with the following thought comparing knowledge and money. There is more to being a teacher than just teaching curriculum. I truly believe that teachers must teach character and personal growth, as well. Today, I showed some motivational clips to get my students motivated to take the STAAR test, but we also talked about the following analogy. It was a great lesson, but within the realms of learning about character, they also learned the curriculum. (Haha!! Learning analogies is part of the curriculum!)

Knowledge and Money

by: Amanda Sanders King

Knowledge is like money. The more you know; the more you are worth. Like money, the more you have, the more you can buy. However, money only buys physical things; whereas, knowledge buys your choices that lead to character. More knowledge allows you to buy wiser decisions. Those wise decisions give you the character traits of honesty, integrity, loyalty, respect, and success. On the other hand, less knowledge leads you to buy into foolish decisions. The character traits you get from those decisions are dishonesty, falseness, insecurity, depression, and an unawareness of things. Your character is what makes or breaks you; therefore, knowledge is more important than money!

I went on to ask my students what they would do with the knowledge they are gaining in school. Hopefully, they will use it to be successful in life. Ask yourself the same question. What are you going to do with the knowledge that you have learned? Are you going to keep making the same mistakes over and over? Or, are you going to learn from those mistakes and build your character?