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WHEN AFFIRMATIONS MEET EDUCATION
Reader's Digest India
|September 2025
Self-help says manifest joy. Teaching says manifest patience, coffee, and an early retirement plan. This Teacher's Day, here are some positive mantras only educators could write.
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- Every day is a fresh hell, but at least it's not boring.
- I do not have “problem students”; I have “opportunities to manage my frustration.”
- I can be whatever I want, as long as I don't want to be well paid.
This story is from the September 2025 edition of Reader's Digest India.
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