Stories about school
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about school from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Mr Jones — afternoon off for WembleyStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Scary disciplinarian primary teacher Mr Jones. Dad has two World Cup England–Poland tickets at Wembley and lunch with Brahm; the boy asks for the afternoon off — totally against…
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Mr. Jones his name was and he was a very scary teacher. But I still remember one of my experiences with Mr. Jones. [snorts] My father, this is very worldly but please excuse this. My father had the afternoon off work and I uh went home for lunch and my father sort of saw me in uh you know my mother's little apartment just close by and my father said, "Oh, it's a shame you have to go to school this afternoon. I got these two tickets for a World Cup soccer match against Poland at Wembley Stadium. And he said, "It's a shame you have to go to school. You could have come with me to watch the match." Now you know what in places like UK and even Poland a soccer match is like this is World Cup qualifying match. And so I said, "Oh, you never know. You can always ask." So I had the guts to go up to Mr. jokes and I asked him, "Uh, please, sir, can I have the afternoon of school to watch a soccer match?" That's totally against the rules. But he told me, he said, "Well, you're doing okay. Off you go
- The deliberate mistake on the blackboardStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: School maths teacher, caught in an error on the blackboard, claims he put it there on purpose to check the class was paying attention — 'well done' — modelling how hard it is to…
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Blackboard and we pointed out that's wrong you know he made a mistake they said exactly I put that on there on purpose to make sure you were all paying attention you know that the deliberate mistake to keep you all awake