Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
In education, parody is obsolete.
The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.
Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.
When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds?
Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct. . . and are experienced differently.
Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.
The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods. . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.
I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road, laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones.