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Traits of a good teacher

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Being a teacher is one of the greatest professions on earth. One gets to pass knowledge to willing listeners. To be excellent, a teacher should possess the following traits; Patience:  Patience is a virtue that all teachers must have. This is because you need it while passing knowledge especially to children. If you are not patient, then you will get worked up easily and become very irritable. You need to take your time and explain the same thing in different ways so that everyone you are teaching can understand. And when a student takes longer than usual to grasp simple concepts, then you need to be patient enough with them in order to lead them, work with them until they understand. Kindness:  if you came across an unkind teacher, you probably would not want to meet them again. It has gone on record that there are students who drop their courses simply because the teacher was unkind to them and at the same time, there are those who enrolled for a course...

The Bible is a book of wisdom

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The Bible is a book of wisdom. From Genesis to Revelation, the verses are inspirational, educative, guiding or cautioning. The word wisdom appears in 222 different verses of the Bible. The most popular and referenced verse is James chapter 1 verse 5. Making reference to the King James Version, it says; “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” There is no excuse therefore for anyone to lack wisdom. Interestingly, there are plenty of Christians out there who do not have wisdom and unfortunately, do not ask for it. Out of the books of the Bible, Proverbs is regarded as the book of wisdom. The word is referenced in 52 verses.  It was written thoughtfully with very encouraging and words full of wisdom from the very first chapter all the way to last. The book particularly stresses on the need for someone to get wisdom and keep. It even suggests that wisdom is better than any other pos...

Opportunity knocks once

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A story is told of a man who moved to another state where he didn't know anyone. In the move, his old piano was jarred, and of course it needed to be tuned when the man arrived. So he asked around, and was told that Earl Opporknockity was the best piano tuner in the area. The man called Earl and hired him to tune his piano. Earl had a keen ear and a deft touch, and did a wonderful job tuning the old piano. The man was able to play beautiful music once again, and was very pleased. After a year or so the old piano started producing sour notes again. So the man called Earl, and asked him to come work his magic on the old piano again. To the man's surprise, Earl refused, saying "Sorry, I can't accept the job." "Why not?" the man wanted to know. "I'll pay you twice as much as last time if you'll just come tune my piano." "Haven't you heard?" Earl asked, "Opporknockity only tunes once." ***************...