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On Sabbath, April 3, 2010, I had the privilege of attending the North Bronx Seventh-day Adventist Church in recognition of the completion of their newly renovated church facility. At the “potluck” after church, I was seated next to a visitor from Brooklyn, who informed me that his sister attended the Brooklyn SDA Elementary School, and that one teacher was very influential in turning his sister’s life around. The teacher was Clotil Edmeade. He said that she was held back twice in public school and entered the school with a severe deficiency in reading skills. He said that Clotil volunteered to tutor his sister every Sunday for 3-4 hours for the entire school year. Her reading skills improved dramatically, and by the end of the school year she was reading at grade level. She is now graduating from high school with honors and attributes part of her success to a loving, Christian teacher – Clotil Edmeade. This students life was transformed because Clotil Edmeade epitomized a life of excellence and genuinely believed in Ellen G. White’s observation in Education, p.232, which says: “The true educator, keeping in view what his/her pupils may become will recognize the value of the material upon which he/she is working. He/She will take a personal interest and will seek to develop all of the students powers.” Not for 30 minutes, not even for 30 days – but for the rest of the students life.
To God be the glory for the influence of a caring, dedicated Christian teacher. We will never know how many other students may be in the kingdom of God as a result of Clotil Edmeade’s influence.
To God be the glory! |
On December 12,
2009 the
Greater New York Conference of principals and teachers were saddened at
the
loss of an outstanding educator, Clotil Edmeade. Her life
impacted
on hundreds of students, even after time erased their experiences in her
classroom. She was a gentle “| Next > |
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