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It is an astonishing thing that the true intellectual seems to escape those sad effects of age that are death before their time to so many men. He remains young up to the end. One

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

"People do not speak ill,” writes St. Augustine, “before the man who does not listen.”

Having thus drawn your advantage from it, leave the rest to the Lord who judges for you and will do justice in His good time.

When a reproach is leveled at you, instead of rebelling interiorly or exteriorly like an animal bristling up, observe like a man the bearing of what is said; be impersonal and honest. If the criticism is right and you wrong, do you mean to resist truth?

Whatever you decide for your seating plan, remember to change the children round often, at least once every half-term. It’s also a good idea to have different seats for different subjects, and mix these round often too.

assess their knowledge at the beginning and end of a topic and have clear ideas of where their gaps in knowledge are

If children are given a muddled learning objective, they can focus more on the activity, what they are doing, rather than what they are learning.