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Four Obstacles of Learning
by Alexander Goldstein → (All Poetry by Alexander Goldstein)
Wednesday, March 8, 2017    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Now, let's talk of learning disability.

 

To be fond of conducting great affairs,

Changing and altering what is of long-standing,

To obtain for oneself the reputation

Of meritorious service is called Ambition.

 

To claim all wisdom and intrude into matters,

Encroaching on the work of others and

Representing it as one's own is called Greediness.

 

To see one's errors without changing them

And to go on more resolutely in one's own way

When remonstrated with is called Obstinacy.

 

When another agrees with one to approve of him,

And, however good he may be, when he disagrees

To disapprove of him is called Boastful Conceit.

 

When one can allow no track to these four obstacles,

He begins to be capable of being taught.

 


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Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on March 8, 2017
I see this very thing in my own work as a teacher. Sometimes I feel that some of the students are incapable of being taught anything, for a variety of reasons. An enlightening poem. John


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