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One of the reasons for which you ultimately became a teacher, however, is the way by which you were taught. You came to realise that teaching is a political act at the heart of which lies political change. You became a teacher to rectify things. Because you had a great responsibility towards the future. As a teenager, you attended an average boys’ public school in a suburban area of a small city in the northeast of Jordan. It was a school where English was not obligatory until the sixth grade. A school where you were taught to stand up for your superiors as they walked into class, and where any eye-contact was frowned upon. A school where you were inspected for your haircut, nails, and shoes but not your concerns. A school where it mattered more where you are from than who you are. A school where the science teacher taught geography, sports, and Islamic religion, too. A school where you were grabbed by the ears and pulled up, hit repeatedly on the knuckles and slapped on the face for not remembering the capital of Cambodia. And for that you never forgot the capital of Cambodia. A school where philosophy was marginalised by religion. And where you had to wait in queues to urinate because toilets were busy with concealed homosexual activities. A school where during winter you had to wear layers and layers of wool and cotton because there was no central heating, double-glazed windows, or even curtains. A school where the drawing studio was used as a canteen by teachers during lunch-time only. A school where there was no awareness of the disconnection between the teaching curriculum and societal needs. A school where the story always goes with Mr Ali in the office, while Mrs Ali is always in the kitchen. A school where most teachers finished classes 15 to 20 minutes earlier so that they could exploit parents and students in highly expensive private classes outside the school. A school where all music classes were spent teaching you how to play the national anthem. A school where it was always easier to deny and reject than debate and accept. A school where the quiet boy was always neglected. A school where you were always asked what to do, but never did anyone ever do what you asked: to listen. A school where your colleagues were scolded for being overtaken in class by a Palestinian student.

– Akram Al DeekRate it:

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

– John W. GardnerRate it:

One of the rules to identify the fools is that they will divide themselves into supporters and detractors to the powerful people who pretend to be in opposition to one another in public but in reality they are together only.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

– Thomas SowellRate it:

One of the sad things today is that so many people are frightened by the wonder of their own presence. They are dying to tie themselves into a system, a role, or to an image, or to a predetermined identity that other people have actually settled on for them. This identity may be totally at variance with the wild energies that are rising inside in their souls. Many of us get very afraid and we eventually compromise. We settle for something that is safe, rather than engaging the danger and the wildness that is in our own hearts.

– John O’DonahueRate it:

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.)

– Carl SaganRate it:

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

– William FaulknerRate it:

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

– Iris MurdochRate it:

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

– Jack PennRate it:

One of the self-authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

– John L. CasteelRate it:

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

– Andrew CarnegieRate it:

One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

– Bertrand RussellRate it:

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

– VirginiaRate it:

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

– Kin HubbardRate it:

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

– Don FelderRate it:

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

– Finley Peter DunneRate it:

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

– Edward Bulwer-LyttonRate it:

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.

– Benjamin HaydonRate it:

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

– Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-LyttonRate it:

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

– Bertrand RussellRate it:

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

– Arnold GlasowRate it:

One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.

– Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004Rate it:

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

– Lucille BallRate it:

One of the things that can help people with cancer is having something that you really look forward to doing, so that you can focus on that while the treatments are going on. I guess it’s like saying, ‘I have unfinished business left before I die.

– Joe MarelleRate it:

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