I like to think that at Earth Explore, we're in the inspiration business. In a half century of living, of watching people of all kinds make changes, and learn new things, the single common place it all begins, is inspiration.
This is especially true of young people.
Kids are eager for inspiration. We all know about, or once were, the student who was inspired to do more, or to be more, by an especially encouraging, nurturing, or exciting adult. Maybe it was a teacher, maybe it was a parent, or maybe it was a pastor or rabbi who provided the spark. But whomever it was, and whatever the spark might have been, that person sent a life into a whole new trajectory, and opened up for that young person a world of possibilities never imagined.
Earth Explore is a tool for inspiration, but it takes people, great people, to provide the spark. And that's where our teacher chaperones, and our on site educators come in. They help to get our students excited about what they're doing, in large part by being excited themselves. They show them the amazing possibilities out there, because, at the end of the day, it is still a wondrous world in which we live.
When you inspire, you provide a great light to another person. The kind of light that illuminates possibilities in a world that too often is darkened by despair and the opinions of cynics. And, let's face it. Nothing great was ever accomplished by through despair, or by making the world more jaded. But great things have always come, and always will, through simple acts of inspiration.
If you know of an inspiring teacher, or other adult, tell us about them. http://www.earthexplore.com/
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