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Positive Relationship Education Eight topics: Respect, Compassion, Listening, Kindness, Gratitude, Love, Friendship, Care Reduced: Bullying, vandalism, neglect, depression, abuse, discrimination, anger, feuding Increased:
Imagine a loving classroom in which teachers and students: Listen and talk kindly to one another (head). Deeply care that everyone is safe and successful
Practising RESPECT, within the class and for humanity
Was Jacob right to take Esau’s blessing in disguise? What is at stake is the moral life itself. How we read a text shapes the kind of person we become.
Isaac lived in holiness, Esau didn’t. The text suggests undeniably that there was a genuine bond of love between Esau and Isaac. The Zohar says that no one in the world honored his father as Esau honored Isaac. Likewise, Isaac’s love for Esau is evident in his desire to bless him. Why?
If you say what you think, what happens to you is your happening. If you lie to get your way, it’s not your way that you get, it’s the way of the lie.
Declarative sentences used to declare things to be true, as opposed to other things that are, “like totally,” not”? What has happened to our convictions on what is true and what is not?
Jihadists always use the phrase, “We love death more than you love life.” How can we face down such an enemy? The answer is to say, “There is nothing wrong loving life this much. If you wish to worship death, be our guest, we may even help you. But we will not apologize for loving life and fighting for life.”
First, we believe. Afterwards, we doubt, analyze, verify. “Truth-Default Theory” studies this natural habit and its dangerous pitfalls. Learn ways to rise above it.
WHO KNEW? While few people intentionally purchase products involving enslavement and exploitation of workers, the harsh reality is our global supply chain relies on 40.3 million victims trapped in slavery.
VIDEO+TRANSCRIPT: What are the best food sources of lutein, the primary carotenoid antioxidant in the brain?
SHORT COMEDY: One determined math teacher takes on post-truth America.
Why may those who consume meat have up to three times the risk of developing dementia compared with vegetarians? AGEs may be one explanation.
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