Teachers...Molders of Dreams

Last week at our convocation, our Interim Superintendent Sonny Cruse closed his remarks with a poem by Clark Mollenhoff entitled, Teachers...Molders of Dreams. We thought we would share it with you here on this first day of school.  Remember, if you teach children, you are a molder of dreams...

Teachers . . . Molders of Dreams

Clark R. Mollenhoff

Teachers

You are the molders of their dreams

The gods who build or crush

Their young beliefs of right or wrong.

You are the spark that sets aflame

The poet’s hand or lights the flame

Of some great singer’s song.

You are the god of the young, the very young

You are the guardian of a million dreams

Your every smile or frown

Can heal or pierce a heart

You are a hundred lives, a thousand lives.

Yours the pride of loving them

And the sorrow too.

Your patient work, your touch

Make you the gods of hope

Who fill their souls with dreams

To make those dreams come true.

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