To Plant a Tree

The story of the most important lesson I learned in Kindergarten

John Egelkrout
Age of Awareness
Published in
5 min readMar 14, 2022

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Photo by Jean-Baptiste Charrat on Unsplash

Long ago, in a land far away, a man taught a group of children with no lesson plan. There were no learning intentions or success criteria. There was no standardized test to measure the outcome. No data was collected. The man talked, and the children listened, learned, and remembered.

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John Egelkrout
Age of Awareness

I am a sanity-curious former teacher who works a small organic farm with my wife. I write about politics, social issues, memoirs, and a variety of other topics.