“Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would” MenFirstsMeanProblemRunningLanguageBoysTeachTeachingPromiseDeterminationIdiotPhrasesRepeatsSomedayNastyRefusalYellingRecessBad Word Book:Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
“Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them." "Yes, they are good boys," I once heard a kind father say. "I talk to them very much, but do not like to beat my, children--the world will beat them." It was a beautiful thought not elegantly expressed.” WorldKindChildrenBeautifulFatherLanguageGivenBoysWatchesHeardBeatsScriptureBitterGentleMy ChildrenGood BoyBeautiful Thoughts Author:Elihu Burritt
“I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!” KnowsBookSchoolLanguageResultsClassBoysChangedEnglish LanguageEighteenPrivate School Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley
“The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.” WorldFilmArtistLanguageBoysRichPossibilityMediumsTrappedAnimation Author:Alex Abreu
“So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays. What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” MenImportantReasonUseTodayLanguageCan DoBoysSacrificeTiredHarmLazyEndeavorLazinessExhaustedEssaysVesselAcidVery SadMorose Author:Mark Twain
“When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.” IfsWantGivingDoeSaidUseHomeWould BeMotherGirlNamesSpeakLanguageBoysClearTeacherLike YouAskingStrangerIntimacyLoudAppropriateInstructionClassroomNunInappropriateBoy And GirlNicknamesSpeak Now Author:Richard Rodriguez