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Who Strives

Who strives for Excellence bristles at anything less Who accepts Mediocrity settles for irrelevance

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Date: 4/6/2021 9:01:00 AM
It is alarming to me but today I meet many children who "strive toward mediocrity" and I think it's a travesty!
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/6/2021 7:59:00 PM
It may well be the parents who set the bar at 'mediocre.' As they say: You can only get a kid to achieve as much as his parents want him to learn. (Most kids, anyway). :) gw

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