A Chinese proverb that I feel may have some merit here...

[Duckfan]

..for what all of us are trying to accomplish. It was in my e-mail on a completely different matter.

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones"

I spent a few years in China and learned a lot about their culture. So I occasionally get stuff on goings on in education. An American teacher posted this in their blog.

What do you think?

[PatrickforO]

1. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

A simple message. If we want to finish, then we must begin.

[Autumn]

2. I think the mountain has been removed. Hillary's support is very soft and the wind will blow

away what is left. That's just my opinion.

[Hydra]

3. A lot of work went into this primary

And I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say it's more then 35 years in the making, and has been badly delayed. All of it started from small efforts, and here we are making mountains move.

The establishment feel like they are the unmovable object. Let's see what happens when it is hit with the irresistible force.

[MisterP]

6. it even started when Carter juked right 1979-80 and went after Ted Kennedy

MX missiles, the N-Bomb, the Contras, Mideastern interventionism, Israeli unconditionality, the mujahedin, deregulation whether it works or not, wrecking Amtrak

thing is, Carter realized he'd been snowed at every turn by the Wise Men who outlive president after president, and got MAD

[hopemountain]

4. when carryin away the small stones,

one begins from the base of the mountain...and then, the landslides follow.

being strategic is everything toward attaining synergy.

[Donkees]

5. First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain...

First there is a mountain' refers to the beginning stage, when there are teachings and teachers and something that needs to be learned - a sense of a destination that needs to be reached, or a mountain to be climbed.

After a long while, a point is reached when you realize that 'you are that which you seek'. From this perspective, there is nothing to seek.



Then there is 'the return' to ordinary life, but lived in the light of that understanding, which is 'mountains once again are mountains'.

I think this sense of shifting perspectives is something important to understand.