This week provides everyone in America with an opportunity to thank and honor some very important individuals. May 2 marks the beginning of the 14th Annual Teacher Appreciation Week. It is abundantly clear that obtaining a quality education is one of the most important factors for achieving success in our society.
Education opens doors and provides numerous opportunities for people to realize their ambitions.
However, acquiring an education involves much more than learning facts and figures from textbooks. As William Butler Yeats noted, education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. It takes special people to encourage others to learn, to achieve, to be their best. In classrooms across the nation there are thousands of these special people. One such special person in my life was Ms. Madeline Wood.