My Father Taught Me to Pursue Excellence. Coffee Taught Me About Satisfaction.
An obsession with excellence creates an unfortunate binary: all or nothing.
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You know what I don’t associate with excellence? Maxwell House
But there’s a whole day.
Anne Lutz Fernandez is a former marketer, investment banker, and educator who spent two decades teaching English in public middle and high schools. She is co-author, with Catherine Lutz, of Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and its Effect on Our Lives and Schooled: Ordinary, Extraordinary Teaching in an Age of Change. Her writing, often on education, has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian (UK), NBC THINK, and elsewhere.
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