Student Success Statement

“I have been asked what I mean by ‘word of honor.’ I will tell you: place me behind prison walls-walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground-there is a possibility that in some way or another I might be able to escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle?  No, never! I’d die first.”

Karl G Maeser

This quote means that once you say something like your word of honor it’s because you are going to go by it and won’t break it. When you say that you are going to do something you have to keep your word, it’s just like a promise you make that you are going to keep. Keeping your word is important because you show yourself that you’re capable of doing something and and not going beyond. For example, when you give your word of honor that you will never lie, you must always keep it because you gave your word of honor. After you give it you can not tell a lie because you gave your word which is like a promise. If you break your word then that can affect you and others because you weren’t being honest and broke it. Be able to keep your word of honor because that truly shows that you are able to accomplish things without even doing anything wrong.