COMPLIMENTS REMEMBERED
From the October, 1991 issue of Reader’s Digest comes the story told by Helen P. Mrosla, a Nun in St. Mary’s school in Morris, Minnesota. Trying one day to teach “New Math” to ninth grade students, she saw them growing more and more frustrated with themselves because they couldn’t catch the concept. To bolster their spirits, the teacher gave them a strange assignment. She asked each student to list the names of all the other students on two sheets of paper, and to leave spaces between the names. 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 time to finish the assignment, but as the students left the room, each one handed in the paper. Over the week-end the teacher listed each student on a separate sheet of paper, and then reading the sheets, she recorded all the nice things the children…
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