Intellisage

Sir, What is your advice for the teaching and training fraternity in these times of uncertainty? This simple question from a colleague provoked me to reflect on this important issue.Read More

He: Listen to this:
There will be contemporary monarchs, reigning over the earth, kings of churlish spirit violent temper and ever addicted to falsehood and wickedness… they will inflict death on women and children, they will seize the property of their subjects … they will be of limited power their lives will be short, their desires insatiable…property alone will confer rank… wealth will be the only source of devotion… passion will be the sole bond of union between the sexes, falsehood will be the only means of success in litigation…and women will be objects merely of sensual gratification… dishonesty will be the universal means of subsistence, weakness the cause of dependence, menace and presumption will be substitutes for learning, liberality will be devotion, mutual assent will be marriage, fine clothes will be dignity…Read More

The news of the decision to close the Preserves was undoubtedly the worst I had ever received. I’d known for months that it was liable to happen, but I’d deluded myself into thinking that I had more time. There had always been controversy about the need for maintaining Preserves (see B. L. Sanders, Z. Goroshovski, and Cohen and Cohen), but from this remote region I was simply unable to keep abreast of all the political ups and downs. Information got through, but to evaluate its importance, to register the emerging trends, without hearing what people were actually saying in the corridors of power was impossible. So I can’t blame myself if the final decision came as a shock.Read More

When some HR professionals meet someone self-described as a Trainer, they respond with a smirk: “Training is what is done to animals”. Dogs and bears and seals are trained…to perform a set of preferred behaviours. The implication is that human beings have in them a level of autonomy, of self-direction, of choice that elevates them above animals…and, therefore, the word training doesn’t apply. Read More

I had not done anything that made me feel that I deserved to be there… it was simply a bulawa, a call from the Imam AS and thus it was that I was at the Masjid Kufa. Read More