| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "Just as you say," replied Franz, taking up his candle and leading
the way out into the hail and down the winding stair. They crossed
the lower corridor, mounted another staircase and entered a large,
handsomely furnished room, half studio, half library. The wall was
covered with pictures and sketches, several easels stood piled up
in the corner, and a broad table beside them held paint boxes,
colour tubes, brushes, all the paraphernalia of the painter, now
carefully ordered and covered for a term of idleness. Great
bookcases towered to the ceiling, and a huge flat top desk, a
costly piece of furniture, was covered with books and papers. It
was the room of a man of brains and breeding, a man of talent and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: lawyers to sue pedagogues and others for assault and imprisonment,
there would be an amazing change in the behavior of schoolmasters, the
quality of school books, and the amenities of school life. That
Consciousness of Consent which, even in its present delusive form, has
enabled Democracy to oust tyrannical systems in spite of all its
vulgarities and stupidities and rancors and ineptitudes and
ignorances, would operate as powerfully among children as it does now
among grown-ups. No doubt the pedagogue would promptly turn
demagogue, and woo his scholars by all the arts of demagogy; but none
of these arts can easily be so dishonorable or mischievous as the art
of caning. And, after all, if larger liberties are attached to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: of
heaven.
Savarnya's sacrificial meed hath broadened like an ample flood.
10 Yadu and Turva, too, have given two Dasas, well-disposed,
to serve,
Together with great store of kine.
11 Blest be the hamlet's chief, most liberal Manu, and may
his bounty
rival that of Surya.
May the God let Ssvarni's life be leng
thened, with whom, unwearied, we have lived and prospered.
The Rig Veda |
