Welcome!"The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." - Robert Maynard Hutchins
It is my conviction that my role as a teacher is not to teach students what to think, but to train them how to do so. Education never ends, and the best of it happens far beyond the boundaries of a classroom. The content your students will learn in my class will be the medium through which they practice the skills of lifelong learners. It is my further conviction that the greatest education necessarily involves laying the moral foundation of virtue and citizenship in the souls of our children from a young age. In my class your children will look to the example of those great men and women who have come before us to see the value of the virtues played out in their lives. From Joan of Arc and Thomas More, to George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr., the legends of our past light the path toward a just future. It is my great hope that I might play a small part in helping your children become the next generation of legends to which our descendants will look as they navigate whatever choices tomorrow holds. -Burk Ohbayashi |