2011年11月16日星期三
Neither were prepared to compromise
It was that last piece of news which caused my father to surrender earlier that he Rosetta Stone Language would otherwise done. It is one of the reasons I welcome the forthcoming ban on sming in any public place. My mother had never smed in her life, but had become the victim of secondary sming through many years as a teacher spent in a sme filled staff room. My mother’s first round of palliative chemotherapy coincided with my father’s last day of consciousness and by great fortune they were next to each other in the cancer unit. I left them holding hands for as long as was Language Learning Software possible. They too were heros, the first of their generation to get to University from a working class background. They were fiercely loyal to each other and to a value system based on trust and respect. Neither were prepared to compromise those values for the sake of personal advancement. In clearing out their various documents I discovered that my mother had not kept any records of my academic achievements, but she had kept the letter from the University expelling me for revolutionary activity. We were reinstated (the University were guilty of a breach of natural justice) but during that period, when many parents would have been on the side of authority, mine provided unfailing support. I think this is the main lesson they taught me. Support and loyalty to your children regardless of what they do. Integrity to your values and French Learning Software to service in your community. A focus on obligation, not an assertion of rights.
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