Every community has its leeches, sucking up what they can from their host while giving nothing back.
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Maybe an education was lost on minds that are closed and responsibility avoided by those who consider themselves entitled.
Oh for the teacher of wisdom, a leader who knows how to work. Oh for the teacher who invests not just in a mind but also in the heart. I am speaking of the teacher who pauses in the school yard to offer a student a word of encouragement and who shows no favourites but shows favour to all.
A teacher who takes time to know a student's name and invites them into the adventure we call life.
This teacher is the one who leaves no one behind and would come last in order to inspire a person to something better.
When such a teacher becomes a principal they sacrifice love of their subject to advance the subjects of all.
They look to advance the school's interest in a competitive environment while managing complaints that seem to come from all points of the human compass.
From the teacher responsible for a class, the principal becomes responsible for a school.
I write these things in honour of a contributor. Only a few weeks ago Armidale lost a contributor and in my experience not everyone is a contributor.
So when a contributor of the ilk of Murray Guest (pictured left), the principal of The Armidale School, becomes another road fatality, it is only right to pause for a moment to applaud his contribution.
Mr Guest's ambition as an educator was to see all his students make such a contribution to life and country that blessing would follow and we would all be the beneficiaries.
Having had my hand firmly shaken by hundreds of young men and women after chapel services at The Armidale School, I have no doubt the teaching principal has made a contribution that will last through the well-lived lives of his students.
To the students of The Armidale School, pay your tribute to the principal who served you by being contributors to the welfare of others.
To the family of Murray Guest, on behalf of the community in which I live, we offer our heartfelt condolences praying that your grief finds comfort in Christ, in whom is the promise of the resurrection of the dead.
