“What kind of person am I? Did anyone happen to notice the plaque next to the door of this school?”
“Anyone read what it says? Anyone?” He looked around but no one knew the answer.
“It says: ‘Know Thyself,’” he said, smiling and nodding. “And learning who you are is what you’re here to do.”
“I thought we were here to learn English,” Jack cracked, which made everyone laugh.
“Oh yeah, and that, too!” Mr. Browne answered, which I thought was very cool of him.
He turned around and wrote in big huge block letters that spread all the way across the chalkboard:
MR. BROWNE’S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT: WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.
“Okay, so, everybody,” he said, facing us again, “I want you to start a brand-new section in your notebooks and call it Mr. Browne’s Precepts.”
He kept talking as we did what he was telling us to do. “Put today’s date at the top of the first page.”
And from now on, at the beginning of every month, I’m going to write a new Mr. Browne precept on the chalkboard
and you’re going to write it down in your notebook. Then we’re going to discuss that precept and what it means.”
And at the end of the month, you’re going to write an essay about it, about what it means to you.”
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