{"id":95934,"date":"2025-06-25T09:28:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95934"},"modified":"2025-06-25T09:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:29:06","slug":"some-serious-wisdom-from-langston-hughes-via-getting-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/06\/25\/some-serious-wisdom-from-langston-hughes-via-getting-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Some serious wisdom from Langston Hughes &#8212; via Getting Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Live Your Creed, Langston Hughes <\/strong>&#8212; via a recent e-newsletter from Getting Smart<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d rather see a sermon than to hear one any day.<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather one walk with me than just to show the way.<br \/>\nThe eye is a better pupil and more willing than the ear.<br \/>\nAdvice may be misleading but examples are always clear.<br \/>\nAnd the very best of teachers are the ones who live their<br \/>\ncreed,<br \/>\nFor to see good put into action is what everybody needs.<br \/>\nI can soon learn to do it if you let me see it done.<br \/>\nI can watch your hand in motion but your tongue too fast<br \/>\nmay run<br \/>\nAnd the lectures you deliver may be very fine and true<br \/>\nBut I\u2019d rather get my lesson by observing what you do.<br \/>\nFor I may misunderstand you and the fine advice you give<br \/>\nBut there\u2019s no misunderstanding how you act and how<br \/>\nyou live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Your Creed, Langston Hughes &#8212; via a recent e-newsletter from Getting Smart I\u2019d rather see a sermon than to hear one any day. I\u2019d rather one walk with me than just to show the way. The eye is a better pupil and more willing than the ear. Advice may be misleading but examples are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,848,121,71,425,359,500,248,480,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-emotion","category-face-to-face","category-faculty-staff","category-faith","category-health","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-relationships","category-society","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95935,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95934\/revisions\/95935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}