About Mr. Morris
Hello! My name is Mr. Austin Morris. I am the Media Specialist at Jeff Davis Middle School. I am a native of Montgomery County and graduated from Montgomery County High School. I got my Associate's from Brewton-Parker College then moved to Georgia College and State University where I received my Bachelor's in English and History and my Master's in Secondary Education and Media Specialist.
I taught 9th, 10th, and 12th Grade Literature at Wheeler County High School for two years and 9th-12th Grade Literature at Robert Toombs Christian Academy for three years. I am also currently a Career Specialist for Coastal Plains Education High School in Vidalia, GA.
In my free time, I love to travel, read, attend church events, and work on writing a book. I am also on the Board of Directors for Franklinia Playhouse in Vidalia, Ga and enjoy being in plays with them.
As a Media Specialist, my goal is to facilitate learning in and out of the classroom while trying to inspire a love of reading and a curiosity for learning.
Email: [email protected]
Media Center Phone: (912) 699-4202
Quotes to Get To Know Me
"Freely we serve, because we freely love, as in our will. To love or not; in this we stand or fall." - John Milton
“Blessed are the weird people - poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours - for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” - Jacob Nordby
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it." - J.K. Rowling
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” - Ray Bradbury
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun is risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else." - C.S. Lewis
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on." - William Shakespeare
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." - Muriel Rukeyser
“Some things have to be believed to be seen.” - Madeleine L'Engle
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” - C.S. Lewis
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.” - Hans Christian Andersen
"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." – J.R.R. Tolkien
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” - St. Francis of Assisi
“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.” - Terry Pratchett
"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." - G.K. Chesterton
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C. S. Lewis