Sunday, February 20, 2011

Teachers or educators ?



Yours Sincerely ( Y S ) could not help posting this inspirational piece which was forwarded to me by a friend. Read on ..............

*According to a news report, a certain private school in Sydney 's
**
> Eastern Suburbs was recently faced with an unusual problem.. A number of
> the girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the
> bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would
> press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints .
>
> Every night the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the
> girls would put them back. Finally the Headmistress decided that
> something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and
> met them there with the maintenance man .. She explained that all these
> lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to
> clean the mirrors every night (you can just imagine the yawns from the
> little princesses) .
>
> To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked
> the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He
> took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet bowl, and
> cleaned the mirror with it. The silence was broken by a large number of
> gasps, a few girls vomited and apparently someone fainted. Since then
> there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
>
> There are teachers . . . and then there are educators

How true !

3 comments:

AJ7 said...

LOL!

footiam said...

Neither teachers nor educators. Swindlers?

Joseph Pulikotil said...

Hi Thomas,

Wonderful demonstration. I am sure the girls would have learnt their lesson very well.

We surely need this kind of educators.
Joseph