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Boredom
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of
school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only
when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the
teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working
conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize
what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is.
Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and
that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability,
withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole
show.
Fritz Redl in
When We Deal With Children
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Life is a
process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go
through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin:
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Casting seeds of harmony
Reducing hate-motivated behaviour requires selfless acts by caring adults who may never
receive direct acknowledgement of their efforts. We may cast seeds
of harmony throughout the lives of our children. But no matter how
carefully we tend the seeds, they might not bear fruit in our
lifetime. Tomorrow's youths may never know that we were the ones who
planted the seeds in the first place, yet their future world will be
better because of our actions today.
Hilda Quiroz
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ART CREATING LIFE
"I don't know how to draw a merger.
You'll have to go back and kill them."
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Education
either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate
integration of the younger generation into the logic of the
present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the
practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal
critically and creatively with reality and discover how to
participate in the transformation of their world.
Paulo Freire
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Brian would like to contribute
this beautiful
autumn sunrise to the proceedings, a picture
of majestic calm and promise for a fine day
Unfortunately he
took the photograph at 8am on Friday 30 April from the
second-floor roof of his home in Cape Town seconds before
stepping with (as it turned out) unwarranted confidence and
agility onto a wet parapet and debarked with neither grace nor
dignity on to an adjoining roof. Minimal lasting damage ...
nothing a day in the local day hospital couldn't put right!
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Its all so ovibuos
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh
uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can stlil raed it wouthit
porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by istlef but the
wrod as a wlohe.
Reader's Digest, December 2003
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