The life of every adult human being is filled with obstacles that serve to cultivate his or her willpower, decisiveness and analytical thinking. Every complicated predicament teaches us something.
Japanese public schools do not employ janitors. The Japanese education system believes that requiring students to clean the school themselves teaches respect and responsibility.
One day Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, “My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to only give it to my mother.”
In a Turkish textbook, a girl is pictured dreaming of her wedding day, while a boy imagines becoming a doctor.
Three years ago, Wade Herter was homeless, freezing in a blizzard with no jacket. That's when he was approached by two high school students, Ryan Kodak and Luke Arnold. They provided the stranger with a jacket, money and a train ticket to see his father.
A prominent Polish educator, children’s author, doctor and social activist, Janusz Korczak was one truly outstanding man — a hero who refused to save his life three times for the sake of others.
So one of the students came with her kid, because she didn’t have a babysitter.
Once, there was an elderly man and his wife who had lived a long and happy life together.
This 14-year-old boy came by the house with a lawnmower wanting to mow our lawn for $5.
A woman goes to the Doctor, worried about her husband's temper.