A man once boarded a train with a student of
his. The student was not one of the brightest in class and he shied away from
his lecturer. At the next stop, the lecturer patted the student’s shoulder and
said ‘Thank you for shying away from me, your performance is the same as your
character’ and he was off the train.
The student felt insulted. He swore to be
better than his proud lecturer. After two years, the student graduated top of
his class and met the lecturer once again on the train. This time, the student
patted his lecturer, ‘Thank you for the criticism, I wouldn’t have made it
without your mean words’. The lecturer shook the student’s hand and confessed
the words were meant to make him work harder and he was glad his ‘not so bright
student’ was a success.
If you were the student, how would you feel?
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