Prose

Important Question:
    How can the Teacher instill faith, love and courage in Lincoln’s son?
Important Annotations:
1) "Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose and enjoy winning when he does win".
2) "There can be glory in failure and despair in success".
Reference: The lesson ‘Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to his son’s Teacher’ was written by Abraham Lincoln.
Context: Abraham Lincoln’s son starts going to School. He writes a letter to his son’s Teacher. He gives several instructions to the Teacher. He tells him to teach his son gently. He tells him to teach him about values of faith, love, honesty and courage. He also tells him to teach his son the ways of the World.
    He says all men are not true. Every enemy has a friend. He says it’s better to fail than to cheat. He says to have faith in one’s own ideas an never to compromise values.

Writer: S. Shanthi Rajasri