Give it a try. What I would like to do is devote a few minutes each class period to sharing. I believe that beautiful things are going to happen and I would like to start today. What is common between this activity and math is the play with ideas. Math is based on ideas.
Life too is based on ideas.
Once we master an idea we mastered something real and deep. The idea for today is based on a letter that I got from a student in our class. I thought that I was coming to college in part to get away from problems that I was having at home. But my problems turned out to get worse. My answer was to learn and to do the best possible job at school that I can.