“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
Do you agree or disagree with this quote? Explain your answer by using a personal example. If you disagree, do you also disagree regarding most of the people you know?
Thanks, Lucy
Francis of Assisi said, “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Give an example that illustrates this point. How does this quote apply to your life? How is this quote particularly applicable to many who come to the OC for training? Be specific.
Author’s initials of this post are JB.
In James Omvig’s book “Freedom for the Blind,” one of his central themes is that it is respectable to be blind. What do you think he meant by this statement? What does this statement mean to you?
Kurt
Week 4 assignment
Please discuss what this quote from James H. Omvig’s “Freedom for the Blind” means to you. “This word, ‘normal,’ together with the inference that blind people are not, comes up all too frequently in routine, human dialogue, and blind customers need to learn that they are OK.”
Think about the spirit of that quote. Do you think blind people feel abnormal because of their blindness or are we just another cross section of society that feels abnormal given the situation? Explain why you believe either, or both.
Kurt
Candidly explain what the following Persian proverb means to you, “A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind.”
Also, how does this idea relate to you, or people you know, both blind and sighted?
Author’s initials of this post are AB.
Candidly explain what the following Maimonides quote means to you; “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Also, how does the above quote relate to the Structured Discovery teaching philosophy?
Author’s initials of this post are AB.
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