Chapter 24. Respect Individual Differences

 

“We are dedicated to promoting a culture of respect, which values diversity and fosters an appreciation for the rights and individual differences of others.”

 
 --Prince Edward School’s beliefs

I have several children. I expect them to operate as a team. But I am also shrewd enough to realize they are all completely different and if I try to treat them all the same, apply the same rules—apart from the discipline ones—I’ll get a mutiny, or chaos. Now one of them—and I’m not mentioning any names here but they will know which one I’m talking about—can’t be hurried. Not ever, not anyhow. If you shove, he digs his heels in and can’t be moved. He has to be lured, enticed, seduced into being quicker. But I have ...

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