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Consolidate Your Vision to Navigate through Challenging Educational Landscape

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The medias, both social and mainstream, is both frenzy and abuzz with the news of a teacher being implicated by court for using corporal punishment as a method to punish underachievement in academic outcome and as possible means to boost future performance. Although corporal punishment has been legally banned in education/ school, the practice still find its spot for numerous reasons. In my analysis, teachers personal belief system on half truths of educational theories and system induced stress on teacher performance tops the reasons for the existence of corporal punishment in schools. AI generated image 1. The educational Trap of Omnipotence, cultural beliefs on adverse conditioning, and misinterpreted theories As our teachers long ago believed that corporal punishment can induce learning behaviors boosting academic achievement, do today's teachers believe the same? I have seen many do hold on to those believe. It is either because of ignorance or cultural tendency to disbelieve ...

Lessons from ALIBABA'S WORLD by Porter Erisman

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Porter Erisman (former Vice President of Alibaba) tells a captivating and charming story of how Jack Ma rosed from obscurity and went on revolutionary ride in e-commerce. Photo sourced from Amazon . Erisman's personal account of Jack Ma's struggles and triumphs are shared with disarming candour. It's thus hard not to fall in love with such real life valour. It's also hard not to share how a school teacher, a "Tech Dummy," found Alibaba and lead it to become dominant e-commerce player world wide. Such extraordinary success serves to be beacon of encouragement by exemplifying how an individual can realize his dream by overcoming inevitable obstacles through passion, diligence, and resilience.  This article is thus written to share some of the selected lessons from the book which is "both essential and instructive" to those who may love to read through or accidently come across my blog. The ideals from the book may sound business oriented ho...

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Such valour Candour and colour Bless I- A lesser man More mountains to scale Amidst adversities and adversaries Beacon I- Of dreams and inspiration Passion and diligence The grippling trade mark of triumps Culture it- Deep to the blood and veins. Bless more I, a lesser man.