Sticks and Stones
Michael Berman, UK
Michael Berman’s published work includes The Power of Metaphor for Crown House, The Nature of Shamanism and the Shamanic Story for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Shamanic Journeys through the Caucasus and Shamanic Journeys, Shamanic Stories for O-Books, Journeys outside Time for Pendraig Publishing, and Tales of Power for Lear Books. A Bridge to the Other Side: Death in the Folk Tradition and Georgia through Earth, Fire, Air and Water are both due to be published by Moon Books in 2012. ELT publications include A Multiple Intelligences Road to an ELT Classroom, In a Faraway Land (a resource book for teachers on storytelling), On Business and for Pleasure (a self-study workbook), and English Language Teaching Matters, written with Mojca Belak and Wayne Rimmer. For more information please visit www.Thestoryteller.org.uk,
E-mail: berman.michael@rocketmail.com
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Sticks as a classroom teaching tool
Stones as a classroom teaching tool
Sticks have been used both to stop people talking and also to give them the chance to do so, as these two contrasting examples serve to illustrate. Listen to, or read the stories to find out what else, apart from sticks, they have in common, then get together in small groups and share the similarities between the two stories you find:
The Turtle who couldn’t stop Talking
A TURTLE lived in a pond at the foot of a hill. Two young wild Geese, looking for food, saw the Turtle, and talked with him. The next day the Geese came again to visit the Turtle and they became very well acquainted. Soon they were great friends.
"Friend Turtle," the Geese said one day, "we have a beautiful home far away. We are going to fly back to it to-morrow. It will be a long but pleasant journey. Will you go with us?"
"How could I? I have no wings," said the Turtle.
"Oh, we will take you, if only you can keep your mouth shut, and say not a word to anybody," they said.
"I can do that," said the Turtle. "Do take me with you. I will do exactly as you wish."
So the next day the Geese brought a stick and they held the ends of it. "Now take the middle of this in your mouth, and don't say a word until we reach home," they said.
The Geese then sprang into the air, with the Turtle between them, holding fast to the stick.
The village children saw the two Geese flying along with the Turtle and cried out: "Oh, see the Turtle up in the air! Look at the Geese carrying a Turtle by a stick! Did you ever see anything more ridiculous in your life!"
The Turtle looked down and began to say, "Well, and if my friends carry me, what business is that of yours?" when he let go, and fell dead at the feet of the children.
As the two Geese flew on, they heard the people say, when they came to see the poor Turtle, "That fellow could not keep his mouth shut. He had to talk, and so lost his life." ________________________________________
Source: Jataka Tales Re-Told by Ellen C. Babbitt, New York: The Century Co. 1912 Scanned by Eliza Fegley at sacredspiral.com. Additional formatting by John Bruno Hare at sacred-texts.com, March, 2004. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.
Old Joe and the Carpenter Story
Old Joe lived way out in the countryside, but he had one good neighbour and they had been friends all their lives. And now that their spouses were buried and their children grown up, all they had left were their farms... and each other.
But for the first time, they had had an argument. It was over a stray calf that neither one really needed. It seemed as though the calf was found on Joe's neighbour's land and so he claimed it as his own. But Old Joe said, "No. That calf has the same markings as my favourite cow, and I recognize it as being mine."
Well, they were both a bit stubborn, so they just stopped talking to each other. That happened about a week before, and it seemed that a dark cloud had settled over Old Joe, that is until there came a knock at his door.
He wasn't expecting anybody that morning, and as he opened the door, he saw a young man who had a box of tools on his shoulder. He had a kind voice and dark, deep eyes, and he said, "I'm a carpenter, and I'm looking for a bit of work. Maybe you'd have some small jobs that I can help you with."
Old Joe brought him into the kitchen, sat him down, and gave him some stew that he had on the back of the stove. There was some homemade bread, some fresh churned butter and homemade jam too.
While they were eating and talking, Joe decided that he liked this young fellow, and he said, "I do have a job for you. Look right there through my kitchen window. See that farm over there? That's my neighbour's place. And you see that creek running right down there between our property lines? That creek, it wasn't there last week. My neighbour did that to spite me. He took his plough up there, and he dug a big old furrow from the upper pond and flooded it.
"Well, I want you to do one better. Since he wants us divided that way, you go out there and build me a fence - a big, tall fence - so I won't even have to see his place anymore!"
And the carpenter said, "Well, if you have the timber and the nails, I’ve got my tools, and I'll be able to do a job that I guarantee you’ll be pleased with"
Joe had to go to town to get some supplies, so he hitched up the wagon and showed the carpenter where everything was in the barn. And that carpenter carried everything he needed down to the creek and set to work.
And his work went well. He did his measuring and his sawing and his nailing. It was about sunset when Old Joe returned, and the carpenter had already finished his work by then. But when Old Joe pulled up in the wagon, his eyes opened wide and his mouth fell open - because there wasn't a fence there at all.
In its place was a bridge, going from one side of the creek to the other! It had hand rails and all - a fine piece of work - and his neighbour was just starting to cross the bridge with his hand stuck out, and he was saying, "Joe, you're quite a fellow to build this bridge. I'd never been able to do that, I'm so glad we're going to be friends again!"
And Joe, he put his arms around his neighbour and said, "Oh, that calf is yours. I've known it all along. I just want to be your friend, too."
About that time, the carpenter started putting his tools back into the box and then hoisted it onto his shoulder and started to walk away. And Joe said, "Wait, come on back, young fellow. I want you to stay on. I’ve got lots of other projects for you."
The carpenter just smiled and said, "I'd like to stay on, Joe, but you see I can't. I’ve got other bridges to build." And so he went on his way.
Stick Proverbs and Quotes
Choose one you particularly like, and then be prepared to tell the rest of the class why you chose it:
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. ~ Robert Fulghum
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~ A. A. Milne (creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, 1882-1956).
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you. ~ Marie Louise De La Ramee (pseudonym Ouida, 1839-1908).
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. ~ English Proverb.
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties. ~ George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950).
There is a homely adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. ~ Theodore Roosevelt (American 26th US President, 1901-09).
Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. ~ Proverb.
A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow. ~ Proverb.
If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool. ~ Colin Powell (Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1989-93).
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. ~ W. C. Fields (American Comic and Actor, 1880-1946).
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ~ George Orwell (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950).
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth" ~ Dan Rather (American TV newscaster)
No stake ever grew old with the bark on. ~ Zulu Proverb
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ~ E. L. Doctorow (American Author)
Back in pre-Revolutionary America "cruel and unusual punishment" meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. ~ Indira Gandhi (Indian Politician and Prime Minister. 1917-1984)
“If I could work my will, said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!" ~ Charles Dickens (English novelist, 1812-1870)
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of. ~ Samuel Johnson (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. ~ Thomas Reed
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. ~ Edgar Watson Howe (American Editor, Novelist and Essayist, 1853-1937)
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~ Norman Vincent Peale (American Protestant Clergyman and Writer, 1898-1993)
The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is going on a journey with it. ~ Robert Coates Holliday
The real magic wand is the child's own mind. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset (Spanish philosopher and humanist, 1883-1955)
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset (Spanish philosopher and humanist, 1883-1955)
When you have no companion, look to your walking stick. ~ Albanian Proverb
Experience is the cane of the blind. ~ Jacques Roumain
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you. ~ Richard de Bury
But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. ~ Ezekiel 19:12
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, / Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod. ~ Numbers 17:1 and 17:2
And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers. And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you. And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you. ~ Numbers 17:3 – 17:5
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. ~ Numbers 17:6
And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness. And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds. ~ Numbers 17:7-17:8
Pens are most dangerous tools, more sharp by odds than swords, and cut more keen than whips or rods. ~ John Taylor (American Politician, Senator and Philosopher, 1753-1824)
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou prepare a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. ~ Psalm 23
What are mountains made of? - Stones. And stones, of course, can serve as teaching tools, once we learn how to tap into all the memories and knowledge recorded and stored by them ever since the Earth was first formed.
Apart from stones themselves, what lesson do you think you can learn from a stonemason? Now read or listen to the following traditional tale from China about a stonemason to find out what lesson it has to offer:
The Stonemason
Long ago there was a certain Chuang stonemason. He was famous for his extraordinary skill at his trade. One day a rich man needed some stonecutting done and sent for him. When he got there he saw that his employer lived in a great mansion, was dressed in silk and satin, ate all kinds of delicacies from oceans and mountains, and was waited on my maids and servants. Very envious, the mason gave up working, and wanted only to become such a rich man himself.
A fairy heard his desire and made him a rich man. The mason was deliriously happy.
Sometime later, a high-ranking official went out on a tour of inspection, carried in a sedan-chair by his men. He was carried everywhere, surrounded by a great concourse of shouting and yelling retainers, beating drums and gongs. Wherever they went the people bowed and made was for them. His path lay by the mason's door. Puffed up with an upstart's pride, the mason refused to bow himself or kowtow. "I've got just as many servants as he! Why should I bow to him?" he said. Outraged by such impertinence, the official had him bound with ropes, beaten, and fined.
Painfully getting up, the mason said, with a sigh, "So, high-ranking officials are certainly more powerful than I!" Thereupon he swore he wanted only to be a great official.
Again the fairy heard his desire and made him a great official. He was beside himself with joy when the change took place. Following the example of the official he had seen, the mason now rode roughshod over his district, and made all the people hate him.
One day he and his henchmen came to a hillside where they saw a group of pretty young girls. Down they pounced like tigers on helpless lambs. The girls screamed and called, and in the twinkling of an eye, a great crowd of Chuang people rushed up from all sides, bearing swords, axes, and hoes, and did not let him go without giving him a sound thrashing.
Such rough handling from the people put an end to his evil-doing. "Officials, however powerful, are nothing to the Chuang people," he said ruefully, and he longed to be changed back into a Chuang. Once again the fairy heard his desire and helped to bring about the change. The mason was all smiles when it came about.
Every day he went to the hillside with his people, ploughing and sowing from morning to night. It was summer, and the sun was as hot as a ball of fire. It scorched his back while he worked, until his head swam. It was indeed past human bearing. In the great waves of heat even the birds and wild beasts hid themselves deep in the mountains, and the water-buffaloes buried themselves up to the neck in muddy water. Only the glistering green rice shoots stood, like the Chuang people, unyielding. The mason came to the conclusion that the sun must be the ruling power in the universe and started to dream of becoming a sun himself. The fairy heard his desire and made him a sun in the sky. To everybody's horror he kept sending forth scorching flames.
Then it so happened a thick black cloud came drifting from the west and his the sun from the earth. "Well," sighed the mason. "Who would have thought that a black cloud is stronger than the sun?" So a black cloud was what he wanted to be now. Again the fairy satisfied him by turning him into a cloud freely scudding across the sky.
What should happen but that a fierce wind arose and blew the cloud to pieces! "I never knew that the wind was so powerful," the mason exclaimed in dismay. "I can hardly find a place to exist in! Let me become a fierce wind, I pray!" Again the fairy helped, and made him into a gale. He blew like a typhoon, uprooting trees and tearing down houses. He blew like a terror.
But as he rushed over the land he was suddenly stopped in his course by a huge rock. However hard he blew, the rock was unmoved. "Well, even a gale can do nothing to a rock," thought the mason. "No one could ever dare bully me any more if I were a rock."
Immediately the fairy turned him into a great rock on top of a high mountain. He no longer had any fear of being bullied. After some time, however, there came a group of masons to the peak where he lay. They looked at the rock and considered it useful material, and started cutting it. The bewildered mason, terrified, turned to the fairy for help. "You'd better be your old self," said the fairy. So he was a mason again.
From then on he worked with a devotion he never knew before, and he became ever faster and better at his trade. More and more people wanted to hire his skill. As time went on, he became very well known, and as a great mason, was held in high respect by everybody in his homeland.
Taken from Folk Tales from China, second series (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1958), pp. 89-92. No copyright notice.
Tasks
Choose a couple of the following questions to ask the person sitting next to you. Then report back what you found out to the rest of the class:
- What feelings did you have during the telling of the story?
- Have you ever been in a similar situation to any of the characters in the tale?
- Did any of the characters remind you of people you know?
- What do you think the “message” of the story is?
- Did it remind you of any other stories you know?
- Which was the most moving or memorable bit of the story for you?
- Which bit of the story sent you off to sleep?
- Having heard the teaching this story has to offer, what lesson do you think people can learn from the way you live your life?
Below you will find the start of another story about a stone. Working in small groups, try to complete it together, and then choose a representative from the group to tell it to the rest of the class.
And once you have heard all the stories, you can then vote on which was your favourite, and talk about what you feel you learnt from it:
The Traveller and the Stone
Once upon a time there was a traveller who noticed an interesting-looking stone that seemed to be calling to him/her. So he/she picked it up, put in his/her pocket and then promptly forgot about it. But later on, that very same day, ...
Stone proverbs and quotes
Choose one you particularly like, and then be prepared to tell the rest of the class why you chose it:
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~ Dale Carnegie (American lecturer, author, 1888-1955)
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road ~ Voltaire (French Philosopher and Writer, 1694-1778)
All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. ~ Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher, 428 BC-348 BC)
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. ~ Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900-1944)
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ~ Henri Poincar
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them. ~ William Arthur Ward (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)
When you see the value of continued growth, the circumstances around you become stepping stones. ~ Clyde M. Narrimore
It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at. ~ French Proverb
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love. ~ Ben Okri (Nigerian author who uses magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in his country)
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ~ John Burroughs (American Essayist and Naturalist, 1837-1921)
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. ~ Thomas C. Haliburton (Canadian Writer, 1796-1865)
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ Chinese Proverb
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. ~ Marsha Sinetar
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters. ~ Sparky Jose Saramango (Portuguese novelist and man of letters, 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, b.1992)
Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. ~ Martine Vermeulen
He who pelts every barking dog must pick up many stones. ~ Proverb
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ William Shakespeare
To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well. ~ Chinese Proverb
Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement. ~ Susan Taylor
Many people cannot refrain from picking up stones of a slightly unusual color or shape and keeping them … without knowing why they do. It is as if the stone held a mystery in it that fascinates them.
We know that even unhewn stones had a highly symbolic meaning for ancient and primitive societies. Rough, natural stones were often believed to be the dwelling places of spirits or gods, and were used in primitive cultures as tombstones, boundary stones, or objects of religious veneration. ~ Carl Jung, Man and his Symbols
Medieval alchemists, who searched for the secret of matter in a prescientific way, hoping to find God in it, or at least the working of divine activity, believed that this secret was embodied in their famous “philosopher’s stone”. But some of the alchemists dimly perceived that their much-sought-after stone was a symbol of something that can be found only within the psyche of man…… ~ Carl Jung, Man and his Symbols
Scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional ‘unconscious identity’ with natural phenomena…
Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god… No river contains a spirit… no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied. ~ Carl Jung, Man and his Symbols
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~ William Shakespeare
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. ~ Albert Schweitzer
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. ~ Thomas Guthrie
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ~ Plato
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ~ Frances Rodman
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~ Dale Carnegie
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region. ~ Paracelsus
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. ~ Anne Sullivan Macy
If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. ~ Anne Bronte
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. ~ Amber Frey
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. ~ Marsha Sinetar
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. ~ Jose Marti
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. ~ Khalil Gibran
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. ~ Zane Grey
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ~ John Burroughs
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well built, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. ~ Alcaeus
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. Charlotte Bronte
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ~ Henri Poincare
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ William Faulkner
Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones. ~ Saint Bonaventure Sequoyah
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. ~ Hugh MacDiarmid
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. ~ Amelia Earhart
Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement. ~ Susan Taylor
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. ~ Paracelsus
Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me. ~ Kublai Khan
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them. ~ Paul Eldridge
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. ~ Khalil Gibran
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~ Saint Bernard
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As a follow-up activity, you might like to invite each of the learners to pull out a stone from a bag you bring with you to the classroom with you, and then describe what they can “see” in the stone to the partner or group they work with. This is based on the Rorschach test, a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analysed. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning, and it is named after its creator, Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach.
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