Education is a gift well fought for throughout time... How Inspirational is This?

 A lesson that should be taught in all schools . . And colleges....  Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a  social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock , did  something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the > permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building > supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.  When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were  no desks.    'Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?'  She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the  right to sit at a desk.'  They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'  'No,' she said.  'Maybe it's our behavior.'  She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'  And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period.  Still no desks in the classroom.  By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in  Ms.Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all  the desks out of her room.  The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on  the floor of the deskless classroom, Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the  day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the > right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now  I am going to tell you.'  At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and  opened it.  Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the  school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the  wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those  kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just  how the right to sit at those desks had been earned..  Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes  did it for you. They placed the desks here for you.. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.' (By the way, this is a true story).