Simple story
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One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.
Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.
It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.
That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.
On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. "Really?" she heard whispered. "I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!" and, "I didn't know others liked me so much." were most of the comments.
No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on. -
nice one there~~
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Several years later, one of the students was killed in Vietnam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature.
The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.
As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he asked. She nodded: "yes."
Then he said: "Mark talked about you a lot."
After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher.
"We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it."
Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. -
reminds me of an exercise i did in secondary schoolOriginally posted by kopiosatu:One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.
Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.
It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.
That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.
On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. "Really?" she heard whispered. "I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!" and, "I didn't know others liked me so much." were most of the comments.
No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.
we would all past a blank piece of paper on our backs. and den we are supposed to go around the classroom and write what you think about the person on the paper on his/her back. so obviously no one would be able to know wat the other person wrote abt him/her. the smallest chance of that could perhaps be from recognising the handwriting but this is not too much of a problem.
and it was really a good exercise to get to know wat others feel about you, in good ways and bad.
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my lecturer did something like this before
ask us to write 1 nice and 1 bad comment abt the person... -
The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.
"Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can see, Mark treasured it."
All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home."
Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album."
"I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my diary."
Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. "I carry this with me at all times," Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: "I think we all saved our lists."
That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.
The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be. -
You all sibey gan cheong leh~!!! I haven't finish all post comments liao!
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wah quite touching leh~~~
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u sibeh slow!Originally posted by kopiosatu:You all sibey gan cheong leh~!!! I haven't finish all post comments liao! -
wah.. nice story ..
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muahahahaha, how we know the story come in Ji Dey Ji Dey one??Originally posted by kopiosatu:You all sibey gan cheong leh~!!! I haven't finish all post comments liao! 
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its called boosting postsOriginally posted by Estee:muahahahaha, how we know the story come in Ji Dey Ji Dey one?? -
i editing mah... must know when to stop and paste new replyOriginally posted by wuming78:u sibeh slow! -
hahahaha, yeah right~~Originally posted by kopiosatu:its called boosting posts -
den how i gonna reach 20K?Originally posted by Estee:hahahaha, yeah right~~ -
u r unscrupulous!Originally posted by kopiosatu:den how i gonna reach 20K? -
wah kao~~~ with the way you are crapping, i mean posting~~ no problem one lah~~Originally posted by kopiosatu:den how i gonna reach 20K? -
must play cheat mahOriginally posted by wuming78:u r unscrupulous! -
Originally posted by Estee:
gimme ur 5K estee
wah kao~~~ with the way you are [b]crapping, i mean posting~~ no problem one lah~~[/b] -
Want my 150+???
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you want?? take it~~Originally posted by kopiosatu:gimme ur 5K estee -
*ninpeh jot down on his sheet*
kopi
owes me money -
nice story..