A sign of the times

I saw this sign on the way to a school earlier this week. I guess this is what you call a “sign of the times.” I was telling a fellow teacher about this sign and she told me that she knew of other schools who had begun the count down on the first day of school. Hmmmm, I find the sign truly depressing.
I’d rather see a sign with this quote from William Butler Yeats:
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
January 25th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Make me think about my school day, “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” Nice sentence