I watched The Music and the Spoken Word this afternoon. It was actually an older one--#4308. I really liked the story Lloyd Newell told about a gentleman named James. It is a reminder that our weaknesses and imperfections as educators don't need to hold us back from making a difference in the lives of our scholars.
"...while building a new home for his family, James had a life-changing insight. He remembered his grandfather showing him how to carefully pound out the kinks in old, bent nails so they could be used again. And so he gathered discarded nails around the building site and started to straighten them—one by one. He found that many of the rehabilitated nails worked just as well as new nails. In fact, it was the kinks in the shaft that helped them take hold of the wood."
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