Nothing is going to match the level of betrayal my child experienced this morning, when I told him the teachers' strike was cancelled..cue an impromptu lesson on strikes and workers' rights
@BootstrapCook Wanted to tell you my kid, 13yo, did a presentation at school to gain money for his chosen charity, a community larder in Dundee. His group didn't win and he was upset about it, but I told him we can raise money and goods together privately. Have a good day x
Every form of pandering, whether to oneself or to others, whether to large groups or to small, is to be shunned; oratory is to be employed always in the service of right, and the same holds true of every other activity. 3/3
..one should avoid doing wrong with more care than being wronged, and that the supreme object of a man's efforts, in public and in private life, must be the reality rather than the appearance of goodness..(Plato, Gorgias 523a-527e) 1/3
Moreover, if a person goes wrong in any way he must be punished, and the next best thing to being good is to become good by submitting to punishment and paying penalty for one's faults. 2/3