Peter found his own way to maintain the positive spirit in people. He was travelling on the London Underground one day in the autumn of 1960 when his eye caught an article in Read more
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Kathleen has spent more than 20 years working as a counsellor in hospices. When asked about her work, she says she loves her job. Why? She enables people to tackle this final Read more The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship supports and highlights the work of social entrepreneurs around the world. Here are some excerpts from its web site. http://www.schwabfound.org/ Professor Klaus Schwab created the Read more The video above shows a talk Arvind gave at TED. In it he describes how he uses local trash to teach science to children in India. He also helps them to make Read more Zach’s attitude to life inspired many people around the world. Here is the introduction to this video about him. “Every teenager believes they are invincible,” said Zach Sobiech. “It’s not the Read more http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5k9X3UruFoo Chad was an Anglican clergyman who founded the Samaritans in 1953. Suicide was illegal at the time and he felt something could be done to help people in distress. In the video Read more “We are our choices.” Jean-Paul Sartre. “Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.” Albert Camus. “Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the Read more Humanistic psychology was considered to be the Third Force in psychology when it became popular from the 1940s onwards. One force was Behaviourism. This saw human beings as strongly moulded by their conditioning. People Read more Richard Bolles has helped millions of people to find fulfilling work with his ground-breaking book What Colour Is Your Parachute? First published in 1970, it pioneered the way for many books on job search. Read more http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/three-new-zealanders-sylvia-ashton-warner-1978 The link above takes you to one of the few interviews with Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Sylvia was a gifted but complex teacher who worked with Māori children in New Zealand from the 1940s onwards. |
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