Mr. Browne's Precepts

These precepts come from RJ Palacio's incredible novel Wonder, published in 2012. One of August's teachers taught a precept each month. I am doing the same in my classroom, starting with September:

SEPTEMBER
“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”  —Dr. Wayne Dyer
OCTOBER
“Your deeds are your monuments.”—Inscription on an Egyptian tomb
NOVEMBER
“Have no friends not equal to yourself." —Confucious
DECEMBER
"Fortune favors the bold." --Virgil
JANUARY
"No man is an island, entire of itself." —John Donne
FEBRUARY
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." —James Thurber
MARCH
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." —Blaise Pascal
APRIL
"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful." —Sappho
MAY
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." —John Wesley’s Rule
JUNE
"Just follow the day and reach for the sun!" —The Polyphonic Spree

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