100 Multicultural Proverbs : Inspirational Affirmations for Educators

by Festus E. Obiakor

• ISBN13: 9781412957809
• ISBN10: 141295780X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-13
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

Presents proverbs that can stimulate new ways of thinking, communicating, teaching, and learning, and offers reflection about self-responsibility, collaboration, consultation, spirituality, and general life lessons.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Proverbs That Teach Self-Responsibility

If Everyone Loves You, You Will Not Know Who Poisoned You

If You Tell a Tree that You Will Kill It...

The Rat that Joins the Lizard to Get Wet in the Rain

What You''re Looking For Is What You Will Get

What a Person Does Is in His/Her Heart

If You''ve Not Reached Where You''re Going...

Eneke the Bird Noted that Since Men Have Learned to...

Your Intelligence Is Your Handbag and You Carry It...

When a Young Man Washes His Hands Properly

The Lizard That Fell from the Iroko Tree Said That If

The Person Who Blows the Flute Must Sometimes Wipe

The Dog Does Not Chew the Bone That Is Hanging

If You Do Not Allow People to Know What Your Size

If You Pull a Tree and It Pulls You Back

If One Is Not Careful, What Destroyed His/Her Father

As You Make Your Bed So Will You Lay On It

If You Try to Wrestle Down Your Father

When You Chew the Dried Meat

You Can Cry All You Want, But You Cannot Cry

Where You Live Is Where You Protect

Money Is the Beauty of a Man

It Is Not the Load That Breaks Us Down

A Good Name Shines in the Dark

A Person Who Does Not Concede Defeat Is Not

A Person Who Praises the Rain Has Been

Proverbs That Teach Collaboration and Consultation

Life Is in the Ears

To Come and Eat Is Not to Come and Work!

A Tree Cannot Make A Forest

When Mother Cow Is Chewing Grass, the Younger Ones

It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child

When You Wrestle Someone to the Ground, You Also

A Fool Does Not Know That His Brother or Sister Is

The Fly Without an Advisor Follows the Dead Body

A Gathering of Kinsmen and Kinswomen Is an

When Two Elephants Fight, Grasses Suffer

Laughter Is Just a Matter of Moving Back the Cheek

A Good Friend Is Better Than a Bad Family Member

The Tiger''s Cub Does Not Chew Grass

If You Give Your Mother a Counterfeit Money, You

The Person Who Sits Next to Someone Can Easily

The Knife and the Axe Do Not Compete

You Cannot Climb a Tree Without Support

Let the Kite and the Eagle Perch and Whichever One

The Crazy Person and His/Her Mind Understand

In My Poverty, Let Not Poverty Befall the Person Who

The Child''s Home Even If It Is a Dung Is Always a

The Rooster Does Not Forget Who Plucked Its Feathers

When the Moon Is Shining a Person with a Physical

When a Child Is Tired of Working, He/She Resorts

When You Dig a Ditch for Others, You Might Fall in It

Proverbs That Teach Spirituality

If You''re Eating With the Devil, You Must Use a

If You Fall Down and Do Not Stand Up, Evil Will

God Does Not Give You a Load That You Cannot

Evil Doers Are Usually Pursued By Their Own

Do Not Put Yourself Where Your Faith Will Fail You

I Am Holding My Staff and You Are Holding Your

The Toughest Head Carries the Masquerade

Let''s Continue to Sacrifice and Let the Blame Go to

God Gives and God Takes

If You Are Better Than Someone, You Might Be Better

No Person Is God

God Knows the Heart of Everyone

The Same Mother Delivers the Children But the Same

When You Believe, Your God Will Believe

God''s Time Is The Best

You Can Never Become Someone Else''s God

The Opportunity That God Sends Does Not Wake Up

Everyone Has His/Her Own God

There Is No Partnership Between Good and Evil

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