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👄 Tales from the classroom; The virtues of going the other way and behavioural economics.  I was once in a policy maker departmental meeting at school when a notorious junior student in his third year came in picking on another student, shoving him and shouting in his face. I am not sure what the argument was about, but the fourth year student was suing for peace. The more he tried to pacify the other student, the more he attacked him. He was trying to emphasise that the other student was weak and that was why he wouldn’t fight him back. The president refused to call the aggressive student to order simply because the fourth year student seemed not to be popular. He was bigger and taller and was á prominent Christian Union member. Us freshmen were confused at the development.  👑👑👑 A different final year student stood up and told the aggressor that he was being rude for 1) attacking a senior student in front of his seniors and 2) for disrupting the departmental meeting ...

 This story comes from  the eighties, around the time, the junior WAEC gig was brought into our lives and we had to do it or not graduate secondary.. One afternoon, a Christian and religious question paper read,   📚“Are you he whom we’re waiting for or do we look for another?”  a)Who said this?  b)What was their reply? 📚 Á girl put her hand up and asked for an explanation because she didn’t understand the question and the teacher told her, there’s nothing wrong with the question, skip it if you don’t understand it.  I skipped it without thinking about it and that’s how someone else threw their confusion on someone else’s daughter. Years afterwards, I felt that it was my time to shine with that question but I blew it.  The quote was addressed to our Lord Jesus Christ by the followers of John the baptist in Matt 11: 3. John might have been questioning his faith after being thrown in prison. Thereby setting the stage for one of the most heinous cri...