hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Cartwheel Ban?
"A NORTH Queensland school principal is under pressure to perform a policy backflip after he banned students from doing cartwheels and handstands in the playground.Belgian Gardens State School in Townsville has banned all gymnastics activities during breaks, claiming it is protecting students from injury.
Mother Kylie Buschgens told The Townsville Bulletin she was dumbfounded when her daughter Cali, 10, was told she could no longer do cartwheels, even on the grass."
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Don't we only learn from falling down? Don't we have a generation of children many of whom are overweight? Don't we, as human beings, have to learn about risk and experience some adventure - which involves some childhood activities which may break a few bones and bruise a few knees?
Hypothetically speaking, a society driven entirely by fear might indeed be 'safer' but it would also be a paranoid, lifeless society. Adventure, new ideas, physical activity: all of these involve 'risk' but are in the long run are beneficial and part of greater whole.
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