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Chovat Hatalmidim: Message to Teachers and Parents (09) |
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If a teacher faces a pupil who constantly displays the highly negative behavior of anger - is this just cause to conclude that the child himself is negative? Think how absurd we would consider a person who, acting impatiently, tastes an unripe orange fresh off the tree and then cries acrimoniously that the orange is a bitter and poisonous fruit! Think, then, what an educator can accomplish by engaging the angry pupil at eye level, cultivating him in the right direction and properly channeling the anger. This pupil will then serve the Almighty with great fervor - his anger turning into a "holy fire". All that he does will carry the heated intensity of burning charcoal, with "sparks flying about" as he prays and learns Torah. This is in line with what [our revered rabbi] wrote, the heat of anger stems from the heat of the heart. Think, also, how intensively such a person will act to correct his faults when he discovers them. And when he reproaches others, he should learn to do so with due respect, but without foregoing his ingrained intensity; his words should thus act to also cleanse others of their misgivings.
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