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editor’s note <strong>Education</strong>al holiday meditations Produced and distributed by: Malnor (Pty) Limited Publisher: Ken Nortje kenn@malnormags.<strong>co</strong>.<strong>za</strong> Editor: Janos Bozsik janos@malnormags.<strong>co</strong>.<strong>za</strong> Sales manager: Sophia Nel sophian@malnormags.<strong>co</strong>.<strong>za</strong> Advertising: Donovan Blignaut donovanb@malnormags.<strong>co</strong>.<strong>za</strong> Production: Johan Malherbe Meinardt Tydeman Patrick Letsoela Layout: Boago Kedikilwe Ac<strong>co</strong>unts: ac<strong>co</strong>unts@malnormags.<strong>co</strong>.<strong>za</strong> Subscriptions: circulation@malnormags.<strong>co</strong>.<strong>za</strong> 11 issues including VAT and postage Local: R255 Africa: R440 Overseas: R2 050 Address: Malnor (Pty) Limited, 2 Hermitage Terrace Richmond, Private Bag X20 Auckland Park, 2006 Tel: 011 726 3081/2 Fax: 011 726 3017 education@malnormags.<strong>co</strong>.<strong>za</strong> www.malnormags.<strong>co</strong>.<strong>za</strong> COPYRIGHT: All rights reserved. The opinions expressed by <strong>co</strong>ntributors do not necessarily represent the views of the publisher, editorial and advertising staff. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. BEE <strong>co</strong>mpliant Having said my adieu and well wishes for this year in the previous issue, all that is left for me to say is that the following snippets of education wisdom was sourced from Bartleby.<strong>co</strong>m. May it inspire you for the 2014 <strong>Education</strong> year. Very few men are wise by their own <strong>co</strong>unsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master. Ben Jonson What is the education of the generality of the world? Reading a parcel of books? No. Restraint of discipline, emulation, examples of virtue and of justice, form the education of the world. Edmund Burke Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence? Thomas Carlyle Teaching is: You laugh, you cry, and you work harder than you ever thought you <strong>co</strong>uld. Some days you’re trying to change the world and some days you’re just trying to make it through the day. Your wallet is empty, your heart is full, and your mind is packed with memories of kids who have changed your life. Just another day in the classroom. Krissy Venosdale Thelwall thought it very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it had <strong>co</strong>me to years of discretion to choose for itself. I showed him my garden, and told him it was my botanical garden. “How so?” said he; “it is <strong>co</strong>vered with weeds.” “Oh,” I replied, “that is only because it has not yet <strong>co</strong>me to its age of discretion and choice. The weeds, you see, have taken the liberty to grow, and I thought it unfair in me to prejudice the soil towards roses and strawberries.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge In some who have run up to men without education we may observe many great qualities darkened and eclipsed: their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock. Henry Felton Our <strong>co</strong>mmon education is not intended to render us good and wise, but learned: it hath not taught us to follow and embrace virtue and prudence, but hath imprinted in us their derivation and etymology; it hath chosen out for us not such books as <strong>co</strong>ntain the soundest and truest opinions, but those that speak the best Greek and Latin; and by these rules has instilled into our fancy the vainest humours of antiquity. But a good education alters the judgment and manners . . . ’Tis a silly <strong>co</strong>nceit that men without languages are also without understanding. It’s apparent, in all ages, that some such have been even prodigies for ability: for it’s not to be believed that wisdom speaks to her disciples only in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Thomas Fuller: The Holy and the Profane State Every man who rises above the <strong>co</strong>mmon level receives two educations: the first from his instructors; the se<strong>co</strong>nd, the most personal and important, from himself. Edward Gibbon: Miscellaneous Works <strong>Education</strong> and instruction are the means, the one by use, the other by precept, to make our natural faculty of reason both the better and the sooner to judge rightly between truth and error, good and evil. Richard Hooker Where education has been entirely neglected, or improperly managed, we see the worst passions ruling with un<strong>co</strong>ntrolled and incessant sway. Good sense degenerates into craft, and anger rankles into malignity. Restraint, which is thought most salutary, <strong>co</strong>mes too late, and the most judicious admonitions are urged in vain. l Dr. Samuel Parr Yours in teaching Janos Bozsik – Editor <strong>Education</strong> Southern Africa is now available online Be sure to visit <strong>Education</strong> Southern Africa at www.educationsouthernafrica.<strong>co</strong>.<strong>za</strong> <strong>Education</strong> Southern Africa | November 2013 1