Expectations

Marvin Marshall had this in his newletter I received today. 



Rainier Scholars is a project for low-income students in
Seattle, Washington that recruits 5th graders and has them
attend full-time summer school plus weekend classes. The
goal is to see them through college graduation.

Drego Little, one of the teachers, visualizes his young
students as future doctors, city councilmen, and other
responsible, successful grownups. He says, "I treat them as
if they were going to be consequential people--and work back
from there. If you treat them as if they actually have a
future, they tend to have one." He wants to give his
students expectations early in their lives.

David McCullough in his masterful book, "JOHN ADAMS,"
reports that the second president of the United States used
the same technique when he was teaching school. "I can
discover all the geniuses, all the surprising actions and
revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several
renowned generals but three feet high, and several
deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others
catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable
pebbles, cockleshells, etc. with as ardent curiosity as any
virtuoso as in the Royal Academy...." (page 38)

Perhaps Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stated it best, "If you
treat someone as he is, he will stay as he is. But if you
treat him as if he were what he could and ought to be, he
will become what he could and ought to be."

If you ask someone the key to success in real estate, you
will hear the following response: location, location,
location. With education, a critical approach of the
superior teacher is expectation, expectation, expectation.

Notice, however, that  expectations starts with a person's
own expectations.