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"Always Trust Your Feeling." Really?

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"Always Trust Your Feeling?"  This dictum sounds familiar and appealing. It is often used by my colleagues to address the students who consumes without any thought analysis. It sounds wise, thus the popularity. However, the reality is nuanced and misleading. This article discusses why the dictum is appealing and explores to interrupt the assumptions that frame the popularity of the dictum. Why does this dictum sounds fascinating?  The combination of "trust," "your," and "feeling" powerfully blends to tap into appealing aspect of human psychology and experiences. It can be safe to assert that it is powerful enough to hijack our rational self. "Trust your feeling" offers us utterly unique reason that equivocally sound reasonable to justify our feeling and actions. This phrase also helps us shield from societal judgement which is either dichotomies or are not of our liking. Simply put, it helps in what I may call "social-self preserva...
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Teacher Attraction VS Teacher Attrition

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Gentle tides of ocean attract more beachcombers to beachfront, but this one is Tsunami.  Annual Education Statistics 2018 reveled one of the highest teacher attrition rate of 4.02%, the highest being 5% in year 2010. By liberty of choices and likes, attrition is normal trend of human resource dynamism indicating living nature of an organization, however, by our standard ‘4.02% Teacher Attrition’ is of skyrocketing level which is cause of concern. Of 355 teacher who left the system, 263 resigned voluntarily which calculates to 2.98% of total teachers. This indicates that 263 teachers had been thinking of resigning from education system almost every day and in every session s/he taught. This may not sound logical conclusion but it is likely conclusion.  On average, from the available data of past ten years around 2.32% of teacher resigned voluntarily. Thus, it may not be wrong to predict that at least 2.32% of teachers will think (consciously/sub-consciously) of leaving t...
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