The Messy Legacy of a Woke Pope, by Auguste Meyrat

There’s a popular quote from Maya Angelou that nearly all educators have encountered in their trainings: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

This quote is meant to instill the superiority of emotional validation over objective accomplishment. Indeed, no one will care about teachers who work tirelessly — lecturing, grading and disciplining, and consistently producing classes of kids who perform well on assessments and then go on to do great things for their community. Rather, people will celebrate the fun teachers who engaged with their kids, made them feel welcome, and left them with some happy memories of goofing off with their classmates. ….

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