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Adjusting My Approach To Self Change

I noticed a point within myself today as I was reading an article/document that Sunette had posted  – about “Self Change”.

Me write more.

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My Journey to Desteni – NEW FORUM LAUNCH

We have launched a New Introduction to Desteni Forum for all to participate on. This is the introduction that I have placed on the forum for myself. There are some quite interesting introductions/stories being shared by desteni members sharing how they got to desteni.

Here is the Link to the New Forum So come Join in the Discussions; Enjoy:

My name is Andrew Gable. When I look at “how I got to desteni” I usually pinpoint this journey to have began about 9 months previous to coming across my first Desteni video on youtube (approx 4 years ago) which was how I was introduced to desteni. So 9 months before this, I saw the movie “The Secret” this opened up what I thought to be very fascinating ‘principles’ that I had not ever articulated to myself in this way before or really ever considered. These ‘principles’ centred around the point of “how we create our reality” and also opened up the point of “positive thinking” and “law of attraction” and that kind of thing. I had before this, was more focused on Practical application and in a way had found this to be quite a secret in itself, where it was more simply common sense and made everything quite straight forward. If I want something to happen in my world, I simply must practically physically direct the necessary points so that it come forth. There was no short cuts or anything like that. I lived my life this way for…well, my whole life. Until I saw the secret that is; and my life and perspective on how to live was flipped upside down.

I thought “Could this be possible” “Could this be the Key I was looking for” “The Secret” “That would make everything just, easier.” I was quite set at that time at being a great and famous artist and was always looking for ways to make my art more effective and make art that was “real and valid” like with some real substance that was actually worth creating and in a way would be an example of how one should go about making art. So this whole “the secret” thing gave me now a fascinating dimension to now test out and possibly this would support my artistic process as well.

So I started applying the material that was being presented by channels and law of attraction gurus and spiritualists, positive thinkers, light workers, etc…and researching all the stuff I could find in relation to this point. I started living in a more “positive way” (apparently) to see if I could attract a more positive successful life where all my desires were/are fulfilled. After all, this is what “The Secret” and much of the information around this point was talking about. So even thought this entire process was somewhat “backwards” to how I lived before, there was certain aspects of it that did make sense and so to test for myself I dedicated myself to this new methodology of living quite full-on. I really wanted to see if this worked, and I was quite in a rush to become an effective human being.

This lead me to find information about channels and angel guides and stuff like this and really for the first time opened up this point in my world. I would go to the library and quietly get out books about ascension and angel guides and channelling and things like this. I kept this to myself as I thought that people would think I am crazy if I actually believed in this stuff. But I found the “information” being presented through channels to at times be quite specific and not something that one would normally find in the majority of the books in this world. At least this is what I believed based on my life experience.

I lived with my girlfriend at the time and would share what I was finding with her but she was not as interested as I was in this kind of “spiritual stuff” Though her friends were more spiritual and into the whole love and light thing which was basically what I was “getting into” So I bit off a big chuck and went for it, and started speaking about positive thinking and love, though was determined also to test out this stuff and get Actual Results so I could be satisfied that this stuff indeed works.

Nothing ever worked for me, and I continued to apply and research this stuff for 9 months extensively. I remember at one point I was literally doing nothing but meditating and sitting and staring at my wall because this is what the material was implying that I should do. After all, I did not want to “impose myself on the Universe or God” and so I was busy “Allowing” for all the good stuff, and my desires and so forth to “come to me” So basically I was in the process of placing the entirety of me and my self responsibility into the hands of God or the Universe or my Angel Guides or some energy beings. I saw that if I could for instance channel that this would make my life more worthy and interesting and valid.

But my life was changing during this period. I became less active in art and was kind of faced with the harsh reality of not really being as successful as I thought I would be then with art. This was a difficult pill to swallow, and in a way I was really questioning my life’s purpose. That was really the first time in my life that I started to experience a type of depression. When you Here channelled stuff for the first time, it is all about finally arriving in the right place, and you are now here to do your true work, and you have made it so far and you are special so I mean I kind of saw myself as being special already, lol, though this was not coming through in the art, otherwise I would have been getting rich by now or something. So in a way this channelled material still supported my idea of myself as being special and unique and worthy so I went right into it. Like I said, it was so backwards to how I lived my life up to that point, focusing on the more practical physical reality as the key to “getting things done” and the secret to creativity. What this new material was telling me was “I put to much emphasis on doing, and not enough on thinking and imagining”

There was one instance while I was painting where I was integrating this new approach to my life where in attempting to only allow positive feelings within me so that I would create a positive painting and in this way I could ensure that the artwork would be supportive and have some real substance to it. But I noticed one startling point. That in fact I was often angry, frustrated, and miserable. So the one cool aspect that “The Secret” did support in bringing forth is where for the first time I began to look “inward” in a way that I had not before, and notice all this different types of feelings and emotions moving around inside of me. And that for someone trying to be happy, it sure was difficult. How was it possible that I was so angry inside me and not all the time positive.

After 9 months of trying to figure this stuff out, where at that stage I had really isolated myself from people in my world and was exploring this new spiritual ethereal world that I was now finding out about I came across my first Desteni Video.

I ended up on the website asking questions about a week or two after finding the website. I remember after having watched some videos I actually sent a message “asking for help” I do not remember the exact context, but I do remember I blatantly asked for help….lol. I had never done that before in my life, let alone to a stranger on the internet that I had only gotten to know through videos.

I then proceeded the following months to keep track of the daily videos they were putting out and basically watching and studying every video and reading all the documents (extensive amounts of reading) And I also started exploring Self Forgiveness and Breathing and Writing and things like this. My Relationship of 8 years also came to a close around that time, so basically was at home allot alone, with a part-time job just researching Desteni stuff Full, On. From what I could see, there was nothing else really as valid as participating with Desteni, based on what they stood for, which is ultimately bringing forth a world that is actually a cool place for all to live and express, and putting an end to fear, and abuse and the ignorance of man.

So in a way what happened when I found desteni is my life did another “flip” and went full circle in a way, back to how I previously looked at and considered the world, from the perspective of a more direct practical application in terms of how to effectively live in this world.

After about a year of participating I was invited to go and visit the farm. A few people were already invited and I really wanted to go to but felt it was something that I would have to be invited to go and so I never asked straight forward if I could go but waited patiently until I was invited. I was very “pleased” ie: An instant inner smile that didn’t stop for days – lol. And so I went to the farm to learn more about these principles and basically how to be more effective in applying myself in relation to what was being presented on the website.

Why do I stand for Equal Money and World Equality.

Initially I did not fully understand the words spoken in the same way that I do now. But in truth it was the simple aspects of Desteni that enabled me to know within myself immediately that I would stand with this group and that I agreed absolutely with everything being said; basically, where do I sign up! Points such as self honesty, and not lying, and how people do not really express themselves and that everybody was fake. And showing how we as human beings are actually experiencing ourselves inside. I loved it because the way everything was broken down so extensively was fantasitic. Desteni really ripped apart everything and exposed the deception and lies of this world and human beings. Basically showing how everything was lie. Not just by saying “its a lie” and that was that, but actually explaining how it worked so that I could in fact see for myself in the words that were being spoken, like as I read and watch the videos, I actually have realizations like “oh shit – thats so true” or “fuck – I never noticed that before” and so I started to explore myself in relation to what was being presented. Eventually after some while I began to understand some of the principles that were being presented, like the principle of “What is Best for ALL” where initially it was like “the entire presentation” in a way it was not only the message that was being spoken through the portal, but what was being implied in the words and just the whole thing in how it was being presented but not necessarily being spoken. Like reading between the lines. I mean fuck, the implication of a portal being able to have any point in existence come through and communicate, from rocks to other beings, to animals. This in a strange way, was my proof. I could see that this was an “Honest Expression” and that the communication had so much “self presence” I could not get over this point, I was fascinated by it. And would sit there thinking. I want that! I wanted to be as confident as the beings coming through the portal and communicating. They did not appear to be self conscious at all. They were just expressing themselves and there as a certain innocence to this and this was my proof. Proof that what ever it was that they were communicating about was real, and thus I will take it upon myself to investigate what is being said. So yes I did understand what was being spoken, but it was also how it was being spoken that in a way validated for me. An expression that was not self-conscious.

What you understand to be “Heaven on Earth”

Heaven on Earth is up to us. It is a point which we as humanity create and are creating in this very moment and have always been creating for ourselves as the world we live in, as our environment. But we have created a mess of this world because of who we are inside of ourselves which ultimately will be exactly what we create. Thus we end up with starvation, with war, with poverty, rape, murder, animal abuse, due to, not “some outside force guiding and directing us” but due to the fact that we are within ourselves, quite ignorant, cruel, greedy, egotistical and self interested.

So to create Heaven on Earth is actually quite simplistic. We simply must change who we are, to beings that truly care, that support life, that stand always within the starting point of what is best for all. If ALL beings on earth, truly stand within the starting point of what is best for all, then the outflow of our participation here on earth will result in a world and environment of what is best for all. And that would be fucking cool to see how that would be.

So Heaven on Earth is not some pie in the sky concept of creating a utopia of angels and gods floating around on clouds like what you see in movies or pictures. It is simply a practical reality that we create, structure, build here on earth as earth where we create a system/world that is as “Heaven” so to speak.

The statement of “Heaven on Earth” assist as a statement to bring forth the point of us actually being able to create this earth into Heaven. I mean most of understand what “Heaven” is and imagine that if one ended up in heaven that they would finally be at peace, and fulfilled and content and all that stuff. Well the point is that we practically create that HERE for ourselves. I mean why not Create ALL of Existence Everywhere into Heaven, so that no matter where one is, one is living in a Heaven. Thus, We begin Here where we stand, in creating Heaven on Earth. I mean obviously our current money system in no way reflect heaven. The fact that millions are dying in starvation on this planet indicate that we are not in heaven. Or at least a very fucked up one. The point is to be able to Roam Free on this planet, and no matter where one goes, one is still in Heaven. Thus we must start with the basics that are not yet accounted for; like make sure each one on the planet as the basics such as food, water, shelter, etc. And that it is unacceptable that some would live in massive houses with tennis courts and endless food and others live in Huts and just enough food so that they do not die. It is quite plain to see that this is not fair for everyone.

Thus ALL must have access to this heaven. Thus Heaven on earth is a Directive Point for us to begin creating for ourselves. It is like we have lost our way as Humanity and thus require some sign posts to get us pointed back in the right direction so that we are actually living and expressing ourselves of LIFE. So Heaven on Earth is a practical directive and is a point we create here on earth, just the same that we have created our current world/system. We do it practically, brick by brick, breath by breath. If we allow greed to direct our decisions and self interest, what do you think we will end up with. Thus we must also transform ourselves as we have been living a long time in our current system of abuse and thus have accepted it as the only way to be and who we are. We literally must transform our nature where we take Self Responsibility for ourselves and no more accept and allow ourselves to abuse and live in self interest.

The only think stopping us from creating heaven on earth is ourselves. Because we have never created it. Because we have believed we are not capable of it. But I see that we are able to create and express ourselves in ways we are not yet aware of, though we will get to that once the basic foundation of heaven on earth is in place. That being the common sense points that all beings should have access to food, shelter, education, and the basic developmental points required for the creation of effective human beings. This is Now being proposed by Desteni as the Equal Money System which is a Money System that Provide for ALL beings on Earth so that ALL can live in abundance. It is a Money System that we as humanity must decide if we want to go that route or not. Where we either go the route of the equal money system where ALL beings within an equal money system will live the lifestyles of millionaires and have all the necessities of life provided, and we can thus take on the practical process of creating our own heaven and continue existing here on earth as Equals and Begins that actually respect LIFE, or we can continue as we are going now with wars and abuse and likely end up destroying ourselves so that humans no longer exist on earth.

Obviously I stand in Support of an Equal Money System and World Equality. We fucked up and we must get back to square one and start over again with a system that take into consideration ALL Life equally so that we do not perpetuate a world/system leave millions neglected. But rather create a world/ system of equality that take into consideration as the starting point, ALL beings Equally. and thus in its functionality is able to Support ALL Beings Equally.

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Back Pains Within Applying Self Forgiveness

Back Pains Within Applying Self Forgiveness within doing Mind Constructs

A prominent point with regards to my experience at the moment.

I have been seeing this experience/point come up quite consistently now for the last 3 to 5 months. I see that I have always had this ‘point’ though have not experienced it in the same way meaning I experience this point differently now then how I used to experience it yet I still see it as the same point. I will start with my current experience.

This point came up quite prominently today. And I find it becomes more pronounced specifically when doing Self Forgiveness on the mind constructs. This does not come up in the same way while say for instance doing the mind construct layout. But rather while doing the self forgiveness stage when writing out self forgiveness. The point I am referring to is Pain in my Back.

It emerges as quite a sharp and pronounced pain more towards the (upper)centre of my back. It is like a tightness, and a strain.

This also comes out when I push myself more.

I relate the point to haste, as I find I have not yet arrived at a point where I am actually calm as I direct myself through tasks but rather experience me as rushed, or having to get through points quickly in order to get that which I require to get done each day. From this perspective there is fear of not getting anything /everything done, which is also like a fear of falling behind. So as I walk through my day working on tasks this pain emerges and becomes my entire back. Its actually quite a fascinating experience as the pain acts as a kind of guide, particularly when/while doing self forgiveness where in now it is getting to the stage that the pain begin to emerge as soon as I “go into my mind” from the perspective of doing self forgiveness from the perspective of knowledge and information. This is how I see it. So when my forgiveness is not “real” the pain emerge within my back, and if I continue within that vein the pain compound very quickly and as I mentioned will begin immediately as soon as I start to rush the forgiveness or simply am “doing forgiveness” and not actually releasing anything. This will also move into a headache quite quickly also though I experience the point moving from beginning where it emerge in the back then into a headache.

So it is quite cool from the perspective of my physical body indicating to me that I am actually “missing the point” and so from this perspective is supporting me to look deeper so to speak and actually bring myself to a point of where I am in fact doing self forgiveness for real. I mean this is showing that I am making progress even though I may not yet be effective with Self Forgiveness, at least now I am seeing this and realizing when there is pain, which at this stage comes up 90% of the time, indicating that I require to “look deeper” or re-adjust how I am applying the forgiveness/myself

At this stage I have just pushed the point, meaning when there is pain, I, rather than stop, simply push myself to continue . I am testing whether the pain is something that I must push ‘through’ though I have found that I cannot really push through it but rather that I am creating it. And sometimes the harder I push, the more I create the pain. So then must stop.

As mentioned it comes out most prominently while doing Self Forgiveness on my mind constructs but also now is quite “active” in my day to day activities. Sometimes there is noo pain, but mostly every move/decision I make, the pain emerge in some degree or another, and in some cases accumulate more and more until it is extensive pain, pressure and tension in my whole back and then also moving into my head as a headache, though I am seeing (In some instances) that I am creating the pain every step of the way but have not yet been effective in diffusing it.

I am using it as a guide and see that it is not something I require to diffuse necessarily but direct and apply myself in a way where I do not build the pain up in the first place, because this is the point, I am creating it. Though at times it seems to also just sit in my back, like hovering there, I see it, but not able to release it, and also because I am busy in my day that as I move from one point to the next it kind of keep the pain activated, so my very movement in my day activate the pain.

I experience it as an inability to relax. It is less when I have money coming in, where in if I do not have money coming it simply add extra pressure.

I have also looked at it in relation to the Self Forgiveness point from the perspective of the SF being a Burden in that the size and scale of the amount of SF to do becomes a weight in itself. This also correlates to why I would then experience this same pain during my day to day, as with this there is a point where I see what I have to do as “allot” and exist within a “must get everything done” and no matter how much I push, find that I never get to a point where I am just here and able to direct myself where I am actually calm and patient.

In this I RUSH, and have not yet found Why I rush, though have looked at this point because this pain has now been here for quite some time. Like a continuous tension in my mid and upper shoulders back. A constant anxiety as fear as panic of sorts, though strange because I see when the point is here, and realize – Ok, here is the point again, so breath, relax, and direct, yet even within that the pain continue, so I am seeing the point but not yet able to effectively direct it or even stabilize it, but still it is existing within a point of “accumulation” indicating that I have not yet found even the stabilizing point of the pain, let alone to release the point all together. This come through in my writing allot as there is a tendency to rush, and also within this a frustration that I am not effective at this yet, So this point of inner frustration seems also an aspect of the pain sitting in my back. Its like I feel like I am not able to stop, and breath and be here, like there is this constant pressure to move , that I MUST move. From this starting point, I am not deliberate or specific in my application, but only running and speeding through everything, and in this missing it all of it. Thus I must take a look at my starting point and investigate why I direct myself, and from what starting point. Its like I see how I want to be directing myself – I want to be directing myself Here, stable, calm, deliberate, directing each point specifically and really getting specific with every breath and developing my self specificity. So I see that yes, I want this, though still working on getting to this point.


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Michael Mackintosh

Michael Mackintosh is an internationally renowned author, spiritual teacher, entrepreneur and mentor for thought-leaders and game changers. He helps next-generation evolutionary leaders to re-awaken their visions, unlock their genius and systematically transform ideas into tangible income, impact and freedom –  without stress, worry or confusion.

Aged 18, Michael had a profound, unexpected spiritual awakening that completely transformed his life and propelled him into a higher state of consciousness.  This new awakened consciousness and perspective gave him profound insights into the nature of Reality and what was possible in life.

Within a month of this spiritual awakening, he abandoned the normal world and went on a deep spiritual adventure into higher states of consciousness for over 7 years, traveling frequently to India to spend time with some of the world’s most powerful spiritual teachers and discovering the highest states of peace, freedom and deep contentment.

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Emerging from his spiritual practice with visions and a passion to serve, he co-founded multiple successful companies serving millions of people all over the globe: including Awakened Academy, Superhero Training and OmBar Enlightened Chocolate company among others.

Michael is known for his unique and refreshing clarity. He simplifies complex and often intangible ideas into clear, tangible insights that have empowered thousands to awaken to who they truly are, free themselves from limiting beliefs and embrace their true dharma.

He is one of the only teachers who is able to embrace both the spiritual and the material aspects of life and help others experience both inner and outer abundance.

Having realized that there is nowhere to go and nothing to escape from, Michael discovered that the only way to true freedom was to ‘master being alive’ and create the highest experience possible on the inner and outer worlds (which are intimately connected).

Michael reminds us that as we abandon trying to be someone else and focus on “Being #1 of ourselves”, we open to receive nourishment from the Source, the only true, everlasting power.

He knows each soul has a unique mission and deep connection with the ONE and it is only by maintaining that eternal, spiritual connection and living in alignment with the immutable laws of the universe that we can experience true awakened living.

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The Human Rights of Stimming and Signing

Instead, you are taught to read lips and to produce speech you can’t even hear – Oralism they called it. Forcing you to speak by clenching your jaw, by learning to sense vibrations in your throat, until you made vocal sounds. Oralism was widely reported as an “awful” experience. On top of that, if you were caught signing to your friends you were forced to wear gloves bounded by strings so you could no longer move your hands. “It’s for their own good” teachers proclaimed. So you and your friends hid in the washroom to develop your own way to communicate – sign language – something that still works for Deaf people today. This was the dark ages of Deaf culture – an unbearable time. You would hate it.

Today, treating Deaf children by cuffing their hands together would be a human rights issue and violate Disability Law.

History repeats itself.

As I have discussed in my previous article, many educators believe that stimming serves no function and is a behavior that ought to be abolished. On the other hand, you have plenty of autistics reporting it does serve a purpose – go read about it here.

I fear the very same chain of events that happened to deaf people is happening to autistics right now.

Autistics who flap are physically forced to put their hands in their lap on command – “hands down” … until they fear the teacher’s restraining grip on their wrists … in the same way Deaf people were cuffed when they signed.

The same goes for those who flicker their fingers in front of their eyes… Smell their own body parts…

Autistics who make sound with their hands are told a metaphor – “quiet hands” … And teachers ensure to quiet their hands if they don’t understand the metaphor.

And if the child screams in anguish… “it’s for their own good” teachers proclaim.

Autistics are forced to hide in the washrooms to stim in the same way Deaf people were forced to communicate in the washroom.

Educators believe stimming is not an appropriate way of self-regulation in the same way we once thought sign language was not an appropriate means of communication.

Autistic people today are treated in the same way we treated deaf people in the 20th century. The only difference is…

Deaf people are protected by human rights and Disability laws. Autistics are not.

Educators need to find the empathy to understand why people stim. Only then can we accept the natural variation of human minds and include autistics under human right laws.

And if this article did not reach you…

Imagine you lived in a world that no one talked. Though when you see a person you felt compelled to speak with them. Every time you spoke to people, teachers would hold your lips together for minutes on end. You would cry, shout and lose your sense of control. You would be made to feel abnormal. Teachers did this until you would no longer talk to others. Nonetheless you continually felt lonelier over time for not being able to talk to a single soul. “Quiet lips” they told you. “it’s for your own good” teachers proclaimed.

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- Lois Capps
(Related: Bicycles, Children, Nation, School, Schools)

"Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives."
- Donald L. Carcieri
(Related: Economy, Schools)

- Stokely Carmichael
(Related: Children, Country, Now, Schools)

"I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered."
- Ed Case
(Related: Being, Fact, Homosexuality, Public, Reality, Schools, Value)

"Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years."
- Steve Case
(Related: People, Interest, School, Schools, Years)

- Michael N. Castle
(Related: Policy, African, Americans, Learning, Network, Schools)

"Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well."
- Michael N. Castle
(Related: Children, Community, Future, Politicians, Responsibility, Schools)

- Michael N. Castle

- Thomas R. Cech
(Related: Time, Community, School, Schools, Scientists, Teachers)

- Dick Cheney
(Related: Graduation, Being, Chance, Key, Public, Schools, Succeed, World)

- Diane Cilento
(Related: Fashion, Girls, Schools)

- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Mother, Needs, Problems, Public, Schools)

- Tom Coburn
(Related: Lesbianism, Now, Schools)

"The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?"
- Nat King Cole
(Related: Time, Audiences, Chance, Court, Schools)

- Dabney Coleman
(Related: Acting, Months, Night, Schools)

"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Successful, Dependence, Schools)

- James S. Coleman
(Related: Education, Present, Schools)

"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Competition, Schools)

- James S. Coleman
(Related: Music, Sports, Example, Schools, State)

"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Family, Children, Schools, Will)

- James S. Coleman
(Related: Schools, Students, Teaching)

"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."
- Norm Coleman
(Related: America, Economy, Interest, Schools, Students, World)

"Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service."
- Susan Collins
(Related: Time, Experience, Career, Children, Investment, Public, Schools, Service)

- Bill Cosby
(Related: Education, Sex, Idea, Kids, May, Schools)

"Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA."
- Stanley Crouch
(Related: Crime, Culture, Dogs, Parents, Police, Politicians, Popular, Schools)

"I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools."
- Andrew Cuomo
(Related: Education, Battle, Civil rights, Public, Schools, Support)

"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
- Mike Davidson
(Related: Computers, Technology, Children, Hardware, School, Schools)

"I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids."
- Peter Maxwell Davies
(Related: Time, Kids, Schools, Teaching, Writing)

"I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance."
- Geena Davis
(Related: Action, Girls, Parents, School, Schools, Years)

"Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it."
- Marc Davis
(Related: Time, Pretty, School, Schools)

- Stockwell Day
(Related: Education, Sex, Law, Liberals, Schools, Will)

- Tom DeLay
(Related: Control, Birth control, Causes, Evolution, Kids, Mothers, Parents, Schools, Teaching, Violence, Youth)

"If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools."
- Jim DeMint
(Related: Gay, Public, Schools, Teaching)

- Frank Dobson
(Related: Muslim, Schools)

- John Doolittle
(Related: America, Children, Country, Parents, Responsibility, Schools, Teachers)

- Donna Douglas
(Related: Church, Schools, Trade, Youth)

"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Schools)

"I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Family, Publishing, Right, Schools)

- Robert Duncan
(Related: Government, Money, School, Schools)

- Katherine Dunn
(Related: Women, Schools, Violence)

- Dave Eggers
(Related: Time, Compassion, Listening, Open, Parents, Questions, Schools, Students, Teachers)

- Robert. L. Ehrlich
(Related: Family, Life, Work, Quality, Opportunity, Financial, Building, Healthcare, Schools, Security)

- Eminem
(Related: Mom, Schools, Welfare)

- John Engler
(Related: Choices, Creation, Parents, Public, Schools)

"Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is."
- John Engler
(Related: Being, School, Schools, State)

"I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools."
- John Engler
(Related: Schools)

"I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music."
- Kevin Eubanks
(Related: Experience, Music, People, Play, Rivers, School, Schools)

"Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball."
- Jim Evans
(Related: Work, Baseball, Schools, Umpire)

"I'm for prayer in schools."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Prayer, Schools)

- Shawn Fanning
(Related: Potential, Press, Public, Saying, Schools)

- Frederic William Farrar
(Related: Life, Character, Man, Schools, Teachers)

"I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools."
- Sally Field
(Related: Time, Drama, Schools)

- Bob Filner
(Related: Children, School, Schools, Years)

"In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century."
- Louis Finkelstein
(Related: Action, Historians, Schools, Today)

"I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided."
- Mark Foley
(Related: Education, Nature, Virtue, Public, Schools, Spiritual)

- Mark Foley

- Mark Foley

- Mark Foley
(Related: Schools, states, Students, United)

- Steve Forbes
(Related: Home, Government, Attitude, American, Example, Numbers, Parents, Public, Schools)

- Vincent Frank
(Related: Education, Children, Job, Schools, Will)

"Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them."
- Peter Fraser
(Related: Children, Needs, Population, Schools)

- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Money, Day, Force, Schools, Will)

"I wish I had more time to visit schools."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Time, Schools, Visit)

"Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified."
- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Schools, Teachers)

- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Money, Control, Curriculum, Public, Schools, Teachers)

- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Performance, Reading, Results, School, Schools)

- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Money, People, Achievement, Kids, Parents, Poor, Satisfaction, Schools, Students, Teachers)

- John W. Gardner
(Related: Education, Now, Schools, Today, Will, Wonder, Years)

- Laura San Giacomo
(Related: Education, Job, Schools)

"Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have."
- Kirk Gibson
(Related: Now, Schools, Water)

- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Nature, Imagination, Truth, Law, Schools)

- William Glasser
(Related: Work, Competence, Help, Schools, Students, Will, World)

"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts."
- William Glasser
(Related: Knowledge, Facts, Focus, Schools, Thinking)

"As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families."
- William Glasser
(Related: Knowledge, Goal, Schools, Will)

"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system."
- William Glasser
(Related: Nothing, Schools, Teachers)

"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."
- William Glasser
(Related: Education, Agreement, Schools, Teachers, Word)

"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training."
- Fay Godwin
(Related: Mother, Father, American, Artist, Children, Germany, London, Photography, Schools, Training, World)

"I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should."
- Matt Gonzalez
(Related: Money, Schools)

"Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: HusbChildren, Internet, Libraries, Schools, Solution)

- Eydie Gorme
(Related: Friends, Schools)

- Andrew Greeley
(Related: Science, Intellectuals, Schools)

"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."
- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Technology, Now, Schools, Will)

- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Time, Work, Travel, Jobs, Schools, Trade, Training, Want)

"So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled."
- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Technology, Regret, Schools)

- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Work, Mistake, Culture, Information, Schools, Today, World)

- Christine Gregoire

- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Work, Development)

"Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet."
- Daniela Hantuchova
(Related: Hope, Schools, Tennis, University)

- Marcia Gay Harden

- Isaac Hayes
(Related: Brothers, Name, Nothing, Schools)

- Rutherford B. Hayes
(Related: Education, Authority, End, Liberal, Rest, Schools, State, Support)

"This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary."
- Patricia Heaton
(Related: Kids, Schools)

- John Hench
(Related: Art, People, Artist, Information, Schools)

"There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Congress, Country, Schools)

- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Failure, English, Law, Nation, Right, Schools, Students, Will)

"For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Population, Schools)

"When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves."
- David Horowitz
(Related: Right, Schools, Students, Thinking)

- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Home, Time, Children, Mothers, Schools)

"Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: Leader, Children, Choice, Choices, Tax, Giving, Parents, School, Schools)

- John Hume
(Related: Grammar, School, Schools, State)

- Robert M. Hutchins
(Related: Criticism, Justification, Schools, Trade)

"The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: Being, Curriculum, Drugs, Kids, Motives, Parents, Pressure, Schools, Today, Violence)

"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer."
- Alphonso Jackson
(Related: Education, Progress, Americans, Schools)

- Alphonso Jackson
(Related: America, Pride, Schools)

"The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand."
- Sheldon Jackson
(Related: Heart, Mind, Schools, Training)

- June Jordan
(Related: Sister, Brother, Habits, Language, Law, Lying, Schools, Self, Speech, Writing)

- James Joyce
(Related: Art, Pleasure, Schools)

- Anatoly Karpov
(Related: Chess, Children, Schools, Thinking)

- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Education, Knowledge, Kids, Newspapers, Schools, Television)

- Steve Kerr
(Related: Sports, Opportunity, Country, Diversity, Kids, Schools)

- Aly Khan
(Related: Legal, Islam, Doctrine, Law, Liberty, Principles, Schools)

"I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools."
- Chaka Khan
(Related: Art, Work, Schools)

"In this way, some film schools can be destructive."
- Richard King
(Related: Film, Schools)

"I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: Education, Alliance, Schools)

- Robert Kiyosaki
(Related: Education, Financial, Schools)

- Mark Knopfler

"Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Schools)

"An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: People, Idea, America, College, Schools)

- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Education, Time, Progress, Achievement, Public, Schools)

- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Public, School, Schools, Support, Will)

- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: People, Idea, School, Schools, Students)

- John Kricfalusi
(Related: Music, Art, Arithmetic, Now, Reading, Schools, Writing)

"From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now."
- John Kricfalusi
(Related: Experience, Artists, Hiring, Now, Schools, Years)

- Ted Kulongoski
(Related: Choice, Future, Monument, Past, Schools, Today, Will)

"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: Age, Time, Thought, People, Kids, Poor, School, Schools)

- Norman Lamm
(Related: Vision, Gain, Law, School, Schools)

- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Children, Parents, Schools)

"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Public, Schools)

- Henry Lawson
(Related: Children, Fact, Now, Public, Schools, Shame)

"I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy."
- Nigella Lawson
(Related: Authority, Fact, Schools)

"That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now."
- Curtis Lemay
(Related: Destruction, Military, Now, Potential, Reason, Schools, Thinking, Today)

- Phil Lesh
(Related: Education, Children, Opinion, Schools, Support)

- Sam Levenson
(Related: Prayer, Schools)

"The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: Education, Children, President, Promise, Reform, Schools)

"When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week."
- Alex Lifeson
(Related: Age, Drinking, Schools, Years)

- Linda Lingle
(Related: Government, People, Heart, Jobs, Schools)

- James Loeb
(Related: Time, Attention, Day, Enjoyment, Literature, Past, Schools, Teaching)

"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Schools)

- Martin Luther
(Related: Heart, Hell, Labor, Schools, Will, Youth)

"When schools flourish, all flourishes."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Schools)

"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."
- Anne Sullivan Macy
(Related: Experience, Schools, Wrong)

- Horace Mann
(Related: Schools)

"We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Education, Quality, Schools, Students)

- Ed Markey
(Related: Technology, America, Comfort, Economy, Engineering, Safety, Schools, Scientists)

"The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past."
- Ed Markey
(Related: Past, Schools, Today)

"Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime."
- Francis Maude
(Related: Crime, Party, Schools)

"There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate."
- Chi McBride
(Related: Schools)

- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Science, Technology, America, Engineering, Schools, Today)

- Margaret Mead
(Related: Children, Now, Schools, Yesterday)

- Russell Means
(Related: People, Dress, Public, Schools)

- Russell Means

"You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes."
- Moses Mendelssohn
(Related: Schools)

- Thomas Menino
(Related: Attention, Key, Learning, Options, Schools)

"We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Country, First, Internet, School, Schools)

- Nicholas Meyer
(Related: Society, People, Books, Libraries, Schools)

- Ed Miliband

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."
- Kelly Millar
(Related: Schools)

- Alice Miller
(Related: Thought, Childhood, Confusion, Repression, Schools)

- Jack Miller
(Related: Education, Life, Quality, Ability, Desire, Economy, School, Schools, Wrong)

- Ashley Montagu
(Related: Medical, Caring, Schools, Students)

- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Truth, Debate, Questions, Schools)

- Dennis Moore
(Related: Apples, Job, Public, School, Schools)

- Estelle Morris
(Related: Advice, Autumn, Schools, Support, Will)

- Estelle Morris
(Related: Burden, Schools, Will)

"The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Government, Information, Investment, Schools, Support)

- Estelle Morris
(Related: Time, Numbers, Schools, Teachers)

"Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Change, Schools)

"By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: People, Ability, Help, Job, Right, Schools)

"I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Schools, Years)

"Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Government, Power, Failure, Schools)

- Toni Morrison
(Related: Time, People, Being, Job, Schools)

"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: People, Schools, Victims, Violence)

"The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free."
- Frank Murphy
(Related: Reason, Schools)

- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Society, Adulthood, Children, Public, Schools)

"My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: Age, Education, Job, Months, Public, School, Schools, Summer, Years)

"This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools)."
- Michael Newdow
(Related: Government, Religion)

"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
- Marc Newson
(Related: Design, Schools, Visit)

- Chuck Norris
(Related: Change, Control, America, Kids, Now, Schools, Teachers)

- Barack Obama
(Related: Education, Money, People, Desire, Obligation, Responsibility, Schools, Students, Will)

- Conan O'Brien
(Related: School, Schools, Today, Vote)

"The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that."
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair
(Related: Government, People, Churches, Open, Parents, Relationships, Right, Schools)

"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Punishment, Schools, Teachers)

"When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: African, Americans, Schools)

"I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology."
- Major Owens
(Related: Science, Technology, Time, Quality, Answers, School, Schools)

"Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools."
- Major Owens
(Related: Education, Technology, Challenge, Public, Schools)

- Rod Parsley
(Related: Marriage, Bible, Court, Land, Prayer, Reading, Schools)

"Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy."
- Tony Parsons
(Related: Grammar, Public, Schools)

"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Parents, Schools, Today, World)

- Rick Perry
(Related: Time, Building, Future, Job, Jobs, Prosperity, Schools)

- David Petraeus
(Related: Afghanistan, Germany, Schools, Training)

- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Business, Time, Age, Wife, Career, Kids, Parents, Schools)

- Jean Piaget
(Related: Education, Men, Women, Goal, Generations, Schools)

- Jon Porter

"We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools."
- Jon Porter
(Related: Computers, Children, Public, Schools)

- Jon Porter
(Related: Work, College, Debt, Law, Medicine, Schools, Students, Teaching)

- Colin Powell
(Related: Act, Children, Giving, Schools, Teachers)

- Philip Pullman
(Related: Education, Interest, Schools)

"The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools."
- Anna Quindlen
(Related: People, Court, Culture, Future, Kids, Listening, School, Schools, Talking)

- Nick Rahall
(Related: Day, Mind, Nation, Prayer, Schools, Today)

"But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools."
- Johannes Rau
(Related: Education, Music, Society, People, Schools)

"We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them."
- John Redwood
(Related: People, Hospitals, Law, Order, Party, Schools)

- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: Life, Science, Consulting, Relationships, Schools, Scientists)

"The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools."
- Bob Riley
(Related: Success, Economy, Schools)

- Michelle Rodriguez
(Related: Knowledge, Growing up, Intellect, Schools)

"The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools."
- James E. Rogers
(Related: Time, President, Schools)

- Richard Rogers
(Related: Architecture, Art, History, Science, Technology, Geography, Schools, Years)

- Will Rogers
(Related: Schools)

- Rick Ross
(Related: Information, Responsibility, Schools)

- John Ruskin
(Related: Reform, Schools)

- Mark Rylance
(Related: Motivation, Thought, Comedy, Schools, Tragedy)

"We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons."
- Gale Sayers
(Related: Building, Schools)

"There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Government, Belief, Control, Abortion, Evolution, Freedom, Rights, Liberal, Pornography, Prayer, Schools)

"I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Public, Schools)

"So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Education, Kids, Public, Schools, Want)

- Bobby Scott
(Related: Debate, Example, Inequality, Public, School, Schools, Will)

- Bobby Scott
(Related: African, American, Children, Fact, Schools, Study)

"Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me."
- Jill Scott
(Related: Mother, Journey, Listening, Questions, Schools, Students, Talking)

- William Scranton
(Related: People, Hospitals, Schools)

- Anton Seidl

"Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord."
- Jay Alan Sekulow
(Related: Time, Church, Now, Public, Schools)

"We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools."
- David Selby
(Related: Community, Environment, Schools, Teachers)

- Anna Howard Shaw
(Related: Women, Government, Liberty, Schools, states, United)

- George Shearing
(Related: Age, Time, Blind, Children, School, Schools)

- Mark Shields
(Related: Men, England, Schools, University)

"And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools."
- Hu Shih
(Related: Time, Present, Schools)

"There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be."
- Peter Shilton
(Related: Football, Schools, Will)

"I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs."
- Sargent Shriver
(Related: Community, Needs, Schools)

- Neil Simon
(Related: Life, People, Comedy, Fact, Present, Schools, Vocation)

"The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need."
- Gordon Smith
(Related: Opportunity, Help, Potential, Promise, Schools, Students)

- Ian Smith
(Related: Civilization, Hospitals, Language, Schools)

- Vernon L. Smith
(Related: First, Schools)

"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: America, Children, Improvement, Minority, Respect, Schools)

"In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools."
- Jack Steinberger
(Related: Education, Power, Children, Laws, Persecution, Public, Schools)

- Cat Stevens
(Related: Life, Music, Thought, Schools)

- Cat Stevens

- Adlai E. Stevenson
(Related: Equality, Idea, Chance, Pursuit, Schools)

"I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University."
- George Stigler
(Related: Schools, University, Washington)

- Joseph E. Stiglitz
(Related: Life, American, Children, Cities, Public, Schools)

- John Strachan
(Related: Churches, Growing up, Ignorance, Necessity, Schools, Sexes, Years)

- Billy Sunday
(Related: Bible, America, Banks, Blood, Rivers, Schools, Will)

"Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors."
- Bob Taft
(Related: Dream, American, Tax, Job, Kids, Pursuit, Schools, Support)

"I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about."
- Sachin Tendulkar
(Related: Life, Schools, Will)

- Scott Thompson
(Related: Schools, Will)

- James Tobin
(Related: School, Schools, University)

- Polly Toynbee

"From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence."
- Paul Tsongas
(Related: Equality, Women, Brotherhood, Commitment, Economy, Environment, Military, Schools, Violence)

- Benjamin Tucker
(Related: Thought, Authority, Liberty, Names, Principles, Schools, Socialism, State)

- Mao Tse Tung
(Related: Thought, Flowers, Schools)

- Charles Tupper
(Related: Education, Reason, Schools, Teachers)

- Charles Tupper
(Related: Minority, Religious, Schools, Will)

"I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious."
- Bjorn Ulvaeus
(Related: Faith, Religious, Schools)

- John Updike
(Related: Education, Wisdom, Children, Fathers, Founding, Parents, Schools)

"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
- Ninette de Valois
(Related: Time, Schools)

- Charles Vest
(Related: Budgets, Country, Defense, Engineering, Research, Schools, Stress, Support)

"The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose."
- Miroslav Vitous
(Related: Money, Purpose, Principles, Schools)

"Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit."
- David Vitter
(Related: Soul, Body, Future, Mind, Schools, Spirit)

- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Failure, Vision, Churches, Democracy, Importance, Measure, Schools, Spiritual, Welfare)

"Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: Government, Medical, Control, Failure, Schools, Taxes)

"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."
- Mary A. Ward
(Related: Education, Women, Knowledge, English, Girls, Schools, Today)

- John Warner
(Related: Community, Schools)

"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."
- Evelyn Waugh
(Related: Class, First, Leading, School, Schools)

"In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building."
- Michael Welch
(Related: Boston, Building, Schools)

"Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for."
- Mae West
(Related: Man, Reform, Schools)

- Margaret Whiting
(Related: Music, Curriculum, Kids, Schools, Teachers, Teaching, Trying)

- Walt Whitman
(Related: Art, Democracy, Past, Poems, Schools, Theology)

- Roger Wicker
(Related: Health, Care, Country, Effect, Interest, Public, Safety, Schools, states)

"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it."
- Simon Wiesenthal
(Related: Home, Forgiveness, Church, Denial, Parents, Schools, Silence)

- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Art, Schools)

"Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond."
- John Sergeant Wise
(Related: Education, Father, People, Public, Schools)

"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."
- Carter G. Woodson
(Related: Inferiority, Schools)

- Steve Wozniak
(Related: Bigotry, Schools)

- Mao Zedong
(Related: Thought, Policy, Progress, Culture, Flowers, Land, Schools)


Constipation Remedies

Constipation causes may originated in numerous ways, such as emotional, food diet, food intolerance, stress, lifestyle or lack of an intestinal lining, under others.  When you become constipated, you are not moving the stool out of your body, all sorts of bugs and toxins start accumulating and your body begins to become poisonous, you will experience flatulence  due to poor digestion and undigested food particles get into your gut and produce gas.  Nutrients are poorly absorbed and this is the start of further complications and if not taken care, more serious ailments. Improve the wellbeing of your colon and body health with following natural constipation remedies:

Drink fluids regularly
By drinking liquids all day long in little quantities your improve the chances of better hydrating your body and colon, soften your stool and move your bowels.  1-2 cups of tea or coffee help activate your system and boost your metabolism.

Exercise regularly
No matter what type of exercise, you need to keep your body moving.  You can do simple stretches, going up the stairs, going for a fast, run, bend, jump or swim.  Your body needs to be active to move your muscles to activated your digestive system and push your bowels out.

alleviate constipation

High Fiber and water-rich Foods
Try to include following fibers in your daily diets: whole grain such as oatmeal, quinoa, brown rice, millets fruits like apples, pears, bananas, oranges, dates, prunes, figs and pomegranate
Fruits: apples, papaya, mango, figs, prunes, oranges, pomegranate, lemon
Vegetables: cabbage, broccoli, beans (kidney beans, soybeans), carrots, beets, lentils, celery
Nuts: almonds, peanuts, macadamia, walnuts, pine nuts, pecan

Avoid refined or processed foods: meat, cheese or bread!

Follow the urge to go and never suppress as this contributes to form a hard stool

Consume Healthy Fats
Health Fats such as avocados, coconut oil, olives, extra virgin olive oil, raw nuts and raw seeds and organic eggs are important  for optimal absorption of fat soluble vitamin A and equally important to build and maintain a healthy mucosal lining of your colon.

Include Probiotics in your Diet

Probiotics help build and maintain a healthy bacteria population in your digestive tract, which optimize your digestion and prevent further build-up of toxic waste and harmful viruses, parasites, fungus or bacteria.


Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Before we all go deaf from noise pollution

Have you ever visited a local market or a motor park in Nigeria lately? Have you noticed the bedlam, I mean the din? The hooting of vehicles, music blaring from the loudspeakers mounted by those selling compact discs and DVDs as well as those doing one form of sales promotion or the other, the noise from the generators, etc. Anytime there is no public power supply, I have no rest in my house as everyone in the neighbourhood is likely to put on their generators. The noise from these contraptions usually set me on edge.  Noise pollution is actually causing more havoc to humans than we are cognisant of.
Noise is one of the nine sources of pollution. Researchers identified eight others as air, water, thermal, personal, soil, radioactive, visual, and light pollution. An online source, Green Living, explained some of them as follows:  Causes of air pollution include vehicle or manufacturing exhaust; forest fires, volcanic eruptions, dry soil erosion, and building construction or demolition. Sources of water pollution include increased sediment from soil erosion; improper waste disposal and littering and leaching of soil pollution into water supplies. Soil pollution sources include hazardous waste and sewage spills; non-sustainable farming practices such as the heavy use of inorganic pesticides; strip mining, deforestation, and other destructive practices and household dumping and littering
Other types of pollution include personal pollution which is the contamination of one’s body and lifestyle with detrimental actions. This may include excessive smoking, drinking or drug abuse; emotional or physical abuse; poor living conditions and habits and poor personal attitudes. Radioactive contamination include nuclear power plant accidents or leakage; improper nuclear waste disposal and uranium mining operations. Thermal pollution may be caused by power plants; urban sprawl; air pollution particulates that trap heat; deforestation and loss of temperature moderating water supplies
Noise pollution which is the crux of this piece refers to undesirable levels of noise caused by human activities that disrupt the standard of living in the affected area. Researchers say indoor and outdoor noise pollution sources include car alarms, emergency service siren, mechanical equipment, fireworks, compressed air horns, grounds keeping equipment, barking dogs, appliances, lighting hum, audio entertainment systems, electric megaphones, and loud people. Experts warn that noise pollution can cause annoyance and aggression, hypertension, high stress levels, hearing loss, sleep disturbances and tinnitus which can lead to forgetfulness, severe depression and at times panic attacks. In animals, noise can increase the risk of death by altering predator or prey detection and avoidance, interfere with reproduction and navigation, and contribute to permanent hearing loss.
The Lagos State Government took a commendable step in 2010 by banning religious houses in the state   from mounting outside speakers. The level of noise pollution allowed in the state is between 55 decibel during the day and 42 to 45 decibel at night.  In February  2012, officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency shut  seven churches and later in May of the same year, three churches and two mosques within the metropolis were shut down  for violating the laws of the state against noise pollution. News report named the affected churches as the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Mission Church, Anthony Village; Christ Chosen Church, Onipanu and Evangelical Apostolic Church, while the mosques are Darusalam Mosque at Sabo, Yaba and Ayegbesin Mosque at Mafoluku, Oshodi. The General Manager, LASEPA, Rasheed Shabi, was quoted as saying that the development was as a result of petitions filed to his office by residents who had complained about the blazing noise pollution from the churches and mosques.
While I recommend all other states in Nigeria should take a cue from Lagos State and take legal steps to control noise pollution in their states, however, a lot of sensitisation needs to take place to educate Nigerians on the causes, effects and solutions to noise and other forms of pollution.   In a recent interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, Dr. Olawale Ogundiran, an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist said that more Nigerians are being exposed to hearing complications due to noise pollution. Ogundiran, an audiologist at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, said with industrialisation and increase in noise pollution from vehicles and worship centres, the average Nigerian requires regular check up. He said cases of noise-induced hearing loss were on the increase, attributing this to late appearance of victims to medical examination.
 “In the offices, at home, at churches, in the mosques, many of us unknowingly harm our eardrums. Even while in cars, some people turn up the volume of music to an embarrassing level to have a fake feeling of enjoyment. With time, such a person may start experiencing a slight headache occasioned by vibrations in the eardrum which may eventually lead to hearing defect or total loss of hearing”, the audiologist explained.
Ogundiran recommended ear plugs or noise muffler for workers in noisy factories. He also advised against exposing babies to noise at worship centres and social events while warning Nigerians to guard against prolonged use of head set while listening to loud music.
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency as well as state and local government environmental protection agencies need to belt up and partner the National Orientation Agency and the media to sensitise Nigerians on the dangers of environmental pollution and how to avoid it. Beyond the use of traditional mass media, as individuals, we can use the social media (Twitter, Facebook, SMS) to educate other people who may be unaware of the dangers inherent in the nuisance of noise pollution.  Before we all go deaf or die prematurely from noise pollution, let’s all join hands to fight it.


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The two faces of Violence:
Personality profiles of women abusers: The "Cobra" and the "Pitbull" type.
(A differential diagnosis)

Ines Graemiger

With great astonishment I read the review of J. Paulus in the "Tages?Anzeiger" 00. 00 01.19 about Neil Jacobson/John Gottmans: "When men batter women", Simon and Schuster, New York, 1998.

The researchers examined between 63 and 143 pairs and analyzed above all pairs with violent relations, with a corresponding check of their development after two years. They came to the conclusion that it is important to differentiate between two types of abusers who, due to the differential- diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic differences, need totally different methods of treatment.

The authors also did physiological investigations concerning the heart impact and pulse frequency in both groups and got even here different results.

My astonishment as a Szondi (Fate-analytical) psychologist depended on the fact that the personality profiles of these violent men correspond a hundred percent with Szondi's differential diagnosis between the aggressive (s +) and the epileptic (e -) personality type. Szondi's clear differential-diagnostical and need- psychological distinction point out to the following:

In the first group, the "Cobras", the main drive energy has a chronic aggressive (s+) quality, without any paroxysmal attack quality. In contra distinction in the other group, the "Pitbulls", the main drive energy is characterized by having a gradual accumulation (e-) quality with an operational sequence of 3 phases.

According to my knowledge such a sharp distinction, with all it's therapeutic and counseling consequences, is only found in Szondi's theory and not mentioned in any other psychological or analytic school.

It is my experience that this distinction is often taken up very critically by psychology students and other psychologists because it emerges quite unexpected and surprisingly and does not belong to the usual psychological knowledge or ideas. Therefore, are we, as Szondi psychologists, glad to see that Szondi's differential diagnosis is confirmed by the results of Simon and Schuster.

I will make a short summary of the article and afterwards add a fate-psychological comment.

Physical and emotional / verbal violence
- The heart beating and pulse slow down before the act. It comes to a stabilization, to a preparing rest, so that the blow can be made like a stroke of lightning. This is the attitude of the poison snake, the Cobra. - Heart beating and Pulse increase before the act. This means that the person comes gradually into a state of clear affective excitation, starting with an accumulation phase in which he starts losing his nerves and feels provoked. The aggression develops slowly as in a Pitbull dog.
-The attack is carried on in a calculated brutal and cold way. - It concerns a hot, affective excitation- potential, a fiery accumulation (in contrast to the coolness and distance of the other group).
- Extreme brutal threats are expressed with knives and fire weapons and are afterwards realized to a high degree. - Weapons are usually drawn, but only used in very rare cases.
- The men in this group are incapable of having any deeper relationship. For them women are rather instruments for a purpose (sexuality, income). For example they can take a woman only to win a bet. - These men cling very strongly to their women, are often very devoted (affectionate) and fear to be left by them.
- Meaning of the violence: To impose fear and to make the women bend to their will. The men want to dominate and to decide. - Meaning of the violence: To prevent the women from running away and leaving them. These men become only violent when threatened to be left.
- They do not show regret, for them their violence is not worth mentionin - Afterwards they show strong and sincere regret. They see themselves, rather in an inverted way, as victims (who had to use such means because of the running away of the woman).
- They control their partners only when these don't do what they want. They exercise only a partial control and can otherwise release their women. - They are inclined to keep a continuous (chronic) control and constant supervision (which the women usually experience as a still larger suffering than violence itself).
- Usually they are also outside their partnership violent and are incapable to have positive relations The violence of the Pitbulls is mainly limited to their partner. It is not spread to other areas of relationship where there is no fear for the loss of love and abandonment.
Usually they do not come to a consultation or a therapy session. If so, they dissimulate the abuse during the treatment and cheat the therapist. There is nearly no chance that they can be treated and healed. They remain dangerous.
Eventually they come to the counseling and participate in short time therapy, but only with the aim of getting back the women. They have a somewhat larger chance to be treated than the "Cobras," but even they are in therapy often quite resistant.
Denying the abuse occurs within both types, as well as the tendency to declare the women as being crazy.
- They become dangerous when the woman wants to separate and carry through the impulse to kill, but only during a limited time. In a longer perspective they are less dangerous, since they release very rapidly their object, and concentrate instead in finding a new victim. - For a short time in the beginning they are less dangerous since the tendency to aggression and rage start only slowly to increase. However, seen in a longtime perspective, they can become extremely dangerous since they pursue their victim during a long period and realize first later the aggression.
Fate analytical comments, I. Graemiger
Cobra = Szondi type: s + (Sadistic)
Pitbull = Szondi type: e- (Epileptic)
For this group Domination and Power is a main theme. The motive is in the first place the Identification with strength and the aggressor, an extreme masculine attitude.
This forced attitude of always having to be superior and powerful is often found in children, who have been very strongly degraded and were put into a victim role. They were beaten and made an oath never again to be put into the role of the victim. However, this can also happen automatically by an identification with the aggressor.

In this group the basic theme is Fear for abandonment, ("anxiety to be left") and concerns the problem of relationship.
  The Pitbull personality corresponds to the paroxysmal violent type.
The fact that the abuse is not characterized by a sudden and unexpected outburst points out to the fact that it is a chronic, general tendency within all ranges of the life and not only limited to an intimate partnership. - Violence is not chronically present in all ranges of life, but explodes only as rage outbursts due to feelings of impotence, frustration and abandonment when being left.
The absence of regret shows that there is no passing through the three paroxysmal phases as seen in the Pitbull group. - The explosive " Pitbull" type shows clearly that he passes though the three phases of paroxysmality 1) A long-term accumulation phase (e -), then a surprising attack (e0, after discharge) and a phase of remorse (e +).
The control (k+) serves only to keep the woman subordinated and to keep the man in the role of the dominator - The Ego control (k +) is focused on the prevention of becoming abandoned. (m+!!).
(Cobra) = s+ type
The ascertainable inability for a positive relationship points out to a 'pervers-sadistic' personality type as described by
Szondi and is characterized by:
1)The absence of capacity for attachment (m- or m 0),
2) The inability to participate with the partner (p), instead everything is focused on control (k).
There is no capacity for a healthy relation by way of emotional investment (m+) and participation (p). Instead the partner is seized in a perverse sadistic way (s+ with k+). It concerns a chronic defect in relation (due to a participation disturbance, a disturbance in the early oral phase relative the Id and the Ego). However, this relation defect must not automatically get the form of a sexual perversion but can also be manifested on the relations level, as tendency to abuse and to be violent.
(One can therefore postulate the following Szondi syndrome: >s+k+, with m-, p-) (k >
When a man of this group is left by his partner he, becomes temporarily dangerous and reacts with aggression (s+), rage (e-) and murder.
(Pitbull)= e type
All points out that the underlying causes of violence in these persons have to do with a
1) Traumatic anxiety, about fear for abandonment. (m+! = tendency to acceptation neuroses)
2) Paroxysmal rage, as a secondary reaction (e-, s+) on feelings of impotence and frustration. When he is not loved anymore or when he is afraid to be left he gives the way to an affective state of despair.
3) Violence is overcompensation for feelings of impotence. (Latent s-, p-, position)
The problem is rooted in a conflict that has a traumatic, paroxysmal quality. The following general syndrome can be postulated:
- Increased emotional dependency (m+!!), with an attempt to control by "introjection," (k+). The extreme solution of the feelings of impotence and frustration through sudden outbursts of rage and violence (e-)
(The Szondi syndrome: m+! k+ = control and defense against the loss > e- = Frustration and impotence reaction)

Although he in the beginning seems to become violent, he does not show yet murder impulses.
On a long-term basis the Cobra emotionally disinvests the woman who left him and looks instead for a new Victim. Szondi test reaction: (d+m-) On a longtime basis he starts pursuing the woman. He cannot release the lost object and prosecute her. (the e- factor has an epileptic "glued to" quality). Together with the (p-). Reaction these two factors point out a epileptiform-paranoid type as described by Szondi, in collaboration with Bleuler. The " Pitbull " seems to be incapable to withdraw his strong emotional investment (cathexis) in the lost woman. Nevertheless, when at last eventually killing her he seems to try to possess her (k+) anyhow. This complex syndrome would in the Szondi test be described by the formula (s+, e- with p-, and C d!-m!) These epileptoide characteristics would moreover be connected with the problem of a serious relation disturbance in the form of a "neurosis of abandonment." This is due to the frustrations of the infantile wish for contact and by the fear of being left alone. Since this reminds of the Oedipal- incestuous Szonditest contact profile (d!- m+!!) one can expect to find a strong transference of the former parent and family relations.
Both he Cobra as the Pitbull type have, in a general sense, problems to handle in an adequately way problems of impotence (s-, eventually p-), and immediately react with aggression (s + reaction).
The "Cobra" defends chronically his position of being on top (s+) and refuses to get into position of being subordinated (s-). The " Pitbulls " do not always have to be exclusively on top (s +) in relation to their partner. However, when in a situation of impotence they react with an over compensation, in a reactive aggressive (s+) way. They cannot stand being passively be put in the position of being abandoned. They see no other way out. (Test reaction: passivity s-, is overcompensated by s+, aggression).This form of overcompensation is generally limited to the situation of being left and does not need to arise in other situations.
Possible Basic Theme:Family Pattern of "Tormentor and Victim," linked by sadistic violence. Basic Theme:The trauma of abandonment (m-), overcompensated by rage (e-) and aggression (s+).

- Neil Jacobson/John Gottman, "When men batter woman," Simon and Shuster, New York, 1998.

- Jochen Paulus of " Men wie Kobras and Pitbulls ", "Tagesanzeiger", 19,1,2000, P. 42.

- Ines Gramiger, "Kompendium der Schicksalsanalyse," 111, Selbstverlag.

- Leopold Szondi, "Kain - Gestalten des Bosen", Huber, Berne, 1978.

Address of the author: Ines Gramiger , Rebbergstr. 53, 8049 Zurich

© 1996-2001 Leo Berlips, JP Berlips & Jens Berlips, Slavick Shibayev


Cabalen's Other Brand: MANGAN

MANGAN: Kapampangan Culinary Magic

     Mangan is the Pampango word for eat. Why name a restaurant after it? Obviously to trigger your appetite for a delicious home cooking everybody craves for, home-away-from-home that is. At Mangan, ordinary ingredients can be mixed with other components and transformed to become a special fare. With the Kapampangan cooking flair, common ingredients are turned into familiar yet superior meals.

     In keeping with its name, the restaurant menu features a section called “Ispesyal ning Bale,” (House Specialty) where Bibingka with Quesong puti or Queso de bola and salted egg (P130), and Puto Bumbong with grated coconut and mascuvado (P95) highlights not only the restaurant’s specialty but the incoming season itself. It is during this season where Bibingka and Puto Bumbong sided with steaming hot Salabat (ginger tea) complete the celebration.

     An interesting item under the heading of “Ispesyal na Handa” is called tofu sisig (P100). Mangan’s tofu sisig is a golden tidbit of tofu, well seasoned and slightly spicy. It is a light, delicious and healthy alternative to the usual sisig combination.

     Sisig ni mely (P260) is the usual chopped meat sisig that we know. The big difference is that this variety came cold and wrapped up in a banana leaf. How it’s different? I’ve tasted sisig that started off as good as Mangan’s version – until I got to the bottom of the hot plate, that is. I can now discern that placing good sisig in a hot plate tends to lower its quality sometimes. Morsels of meat and bits of liver become bitter when they are burnt on the hot plate. Sisig ni mely, served cold, was delicious with just the right hints of hot pepper. The flavors were intact and unsullied by the effects of over-cooking.

     Tender Lengua in mushroom sauce (P285) and kare-kare Buntot ng baka (0x tail) for P360 are dishes that require slow cooking and a lot of patience. The sauces that accompanied these were thick and rich. One understands even more that the bagoong (shrimp paste) accompanying the kare-kare is served to counterbalance the richness of the dish. It is undeniably tasty because the sauce is made not of the usual peanut butter, but with the sauce of a freshly ground peanut.

     Bigger groups can share a variety of platters they offer. From fried, to grilled, to steamed and to a platter of fresh seasoned fruits (P380). One is Inihaw Pyesta (fiesta) platter (P890), this is a combination that includes Inihaw na Liempo (grilled Liempo), chicken barbecue, Alabos na hipon (steamed shrimp), Inihaw na bangus (grilled and stuffed milk fish), Inihaw na talong with burong hipon (grilled eggplant), Inihaw na tahong (grilled mussels), Dahon ng Mustasa (Mustard leaves) and a delicious variety of sawsawan (dips).

     Another is Pritong Paborito (favorite fried dishes) for P890 which includes Pritong manok (fried chicken), Lechon Kawali (deep fried pork Liempo), garlic pugo (quail), Pritong tilapia (fried St. Peter’s fish), Pritong biya at sari-saring sawsawan. For health conscious and vegetarians they have steamed vegetables platter (P250) which includes steamed talong (eggplant), okra, sitaw (string beans), Ampalaya (bitter melon), Patola, Upo, Talbos ng Kamote (Camote tops) and a delicious variety of dips that complements all these.

     Fish eaters at Mangan will enjoy gatang tilapia with Mustasa (P220), which is St. Peter’s fish cooked in coconut milk and garnished with mustard leaves and green pepper, while other gata fans can enjoy gatang Sigarillas with bagoong or gatang sitaw at Kalabasa at an unbelievable P55 each. One of my favorite all time vegetable dish was okoy (P80), papaya and shrimp fritters served with a dipping sauce of native sugarcane vinegar.

     During my lunch visit at their newly dressed-up branch at Robinsons Place Ermita, the restaurant was packed. The lunch crowd consisted of families, group of friends, young and old alike. A quick lunch and they were off. The tables were briskly cleared as other groups waited to be seated. The steady stream continued throughout the duration of the lunch break and the entire restaurant staffs were continuously alert and on its toes.

     While resting from a big meal, I found other interesting items in Mangan’s menu that includes garlic pugo (quail) Inadobo (P260) and tapang damulag (carabao) for P220 among others. I was happy with my Gulaman at sago (P65) but the katas ng Prutas (fresh fruit drinks) list includes something called camias shake (P80). I resolved to try it next time.

     Being a dessert person however, I regretted not leaving room for halo-halo Gua-Gua (P85) or maybe that seafood pancit luglog (P155) that is served with bright green camias slices, too.

      Mangan’s food is simple yet so delicious and down-to-earth. It is hearty comfort food that “hits the spot.” The kapampangan word for it is “manyaman!”

Mangan restaurant by the way has NO SERVICE CHARGE!
For reservations and inquiries please visit our branches of Mangan:
Robinsons Place Ermita (400-4784) / Robinsons Galleria (470-6353/636-1120) / SM Mall of Asia (556-2783 ) / SM City North Edsa The Annex (332-2320)