Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Do not follow where the path may lead...(Muriel Strode)

Photo by Yana Tes on Unsplash


The whole quote by the perfectly named Muriel Strode is:

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

That's our lives right? Aren't we all leaving a personal and distinctive trail?

As a teacher, I feel I'm forging a trail on a daily basis. To some extent there is a predictability to our teaching lives - we follow a set timetable after all, but there is no predicting how a class will go precisely is there? It can go in all sorts of unpredictable directions.

Individual students can take one prompt and head off into diverse directions. I love that.

That's the joy of teaching, right?

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