Message for Pedagogical Meeting with Teachers

It is important to get some messages across in pedagogical meetings. This will motivate and bring new ideas. Check out some interesting examples.

The difficulty of pleasing everyone

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Many people behave in a way they think will please everyone.

This metaphor tells us about the impossibility of achieving this goal and about the need to trust our inner judgment.

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In the heat of the day a father walked the dusty streets of Keshan with his son and a donkey. The father was sitting on the animal, while the son led it, pulling the mount with a rope.

– 'Poor child!' exclaimed a passerby, 'your short legs must make an effort not to fall behind the donkey. How can that man sit there so calmly on his mount, seeing that the boy is turning to a wreck from so much running?

The father took this remark to heart, dismounted from the donkey at the next corner and placed the boy in the saddle. But it wasn't long before another passerby raised his voice to say:

– What a disgrace! The little brat sits there like a sultan, while his old father runs alongside.

This comment greatly hurt the boy, and he asked his father to also ride the donkey, on his back.

"Have you ever seen anything like this?" grumbled a woman wearing a veil. Such cruelty to animals! The poor donkey's loin is bent, and that good-for-nothing old man and his son have set themselves up as if the animal were a couch. Poor creature!

The two targets of this bitter criticism looked at each other and, without a word, dismounted. However, they had barely walked a few steps when another stranger made fun of them by saying:

– Thank God I'm not that silly! Why do you two drive this donkey if it doesn't do you any service, if it doesn't even mount one of you?

The father put a handful of straw in the donkey's mouth and put his hand on his son's shoulder.