Have you wondered and pondered the kind of news flying all over our planet earth over the years? Even these days there is no moment passing without one issue or the other of wars, escalation of hostilities, kidnappings, rapes, cultism, terrorism, political persecutions and whatever can disorient even the most stable minds. In recent times, Israel and its neighbor's in the Levant region popularly known as the Middle East, who had enjoyed relative peace for some time now has been thrown into deep darkness. Although Israel claims that the Hamas first fired rockets at civilian populations in Israel, the reports and reactions across the world paint a picture of Israeli aggression against Palestinians. The disorientation of families in both regions cannot be quantified in terms of the adverse effects on family life and liberties, especially women and children. Homes, schools, offices, markets and all social activities have been jolted to a halt and families are sent to safety bunkers, according to the Israeli Prime Minister, in the news. Targets in the Palestinian region are not without attendant disorientation of women and children too. This disorientation represents thick darkness, the type that Moses and his God visited on Egypt in an attempt to free Israel from slavery of Egypt. Any hope of light in the world today? Yes, now as always, God in his infinite mercy has always provided both spiritual and physical succur to expectant people who express faith in him. Always, it is hoped that peace will return to the troubled region either way: Israel is able to destroy arms and ammunition employed by Hamas to terrorise the region in the attempt to wipe Israel out of the earth. Or the world will find courage to broker peace for the warring parties. One wonders if the world is slowly but steadily tolerating terrorism as an acceptable way of life today by the way it shows somewhat slow actions and negligence of some sort in tackling the tensions created by terrorists everywhere.
Teaching is the art of communicating with a person with the view of imparting knowledge of relevant concepts, precepts, ideas and attitudes in order to encourage behavioral changes in the recipient. Now, parents happen to be the primary teachers of children in this case. Hence, it is important to teach the teachers of our children what to aim at imparting in the young developing minds. In this instance, the word teaching as it applies to children in formative years actually refers to Conditioning. There is a concept by earlier psychologists that the child's mind is like a clean slate ( tabla-rasa ) and teachers are at liberty to write whatever they wanted to impart on the child's mind so as to achieve some expected results. On the surface, this theory appears attractive and has succeeded in catching the attention of earlier teachers too. But a very close look at the theory may reveal otherwise unless the child had been designed as a robot by the creator, which, however, is not
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