GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW- This print expresses my mom's love of teaching and why she considered teaching to be her most important contribution. Alice Moseley saw potential and possibility in every child's life and she saw a teacher's role as nurturing that child, that acorn, to become as tall and strong an oak tree that he or she could become. We won't name names, but my mom had very little regard for one of her fellow teachers, who, mom said, did not know the name of her students when school ended. Alice Moseley was everyone's favorite teacher and knew everyone's name. In this print, I am not sure what she wanted to convey with those angelic little girls in their clean white dresses playing so pro-socially, as contrasted to the boys, the younger one looking so trusting and simple and the older one, with that demonic look on his face. You just know he is going to try his hardest to bang simple boy up against that tree. Ouch! As a teacher, I think mom got the most pride in nurturing, not the acorns with all their potential, but the weed patch kids who she alone could see as having a possibility of turning into flowers. . Alice Moseley's greatest joy, as a teacher, was being able to motivate many of the unmotivated.
