Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne FrankRead
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Interpretation
Parents can guide their children, but ultimately, individuals shape their own character.
This quote by Anne Frank emphasizes the important role of parents in providing guidance and support, while also highlighting that the responsibility for personal development and character-building lies with the individual. It reflects the balance between parental influence and personal agency in shaping one's identity and values.
In practice
In a school speech about personal development.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
People who give will never be poor.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.
The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering._x000D_ _x000D_ We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.
Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet.
Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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