What is character and resilience?
m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26140607
How do you define it, and how would you teach it? This sounds like another pop at the teaching profession really.
Alt, why did you choose your particular user name? Mine came from yahoo years ago, when I was trying to wind someone up.
(DBT became a fruitarian on, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 7:01, 46 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

sounds a lot like attributes we used to expect parents to instil
Can of lager.
( Kroney, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 7:22, Reply)

Sounds like utter drivel to me.
Alt: from a Herman Melville short story. It fitted well with my personality
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 7:27, Reply)

Character can be instilled I feel
One of the problems (as I see it from a non parent point of view) is that competition between pupils is seen as bad as under achievers in one area will feel sad and disheartened, however the art of this is to find an area they will excel in, then the ability to overcome your weak areas and see the positives is slowly there.

Alt chose name over 15 yrs ago when I first got online it was the name of my childhood dog. (not the 29 bit that was just the one available when I first got it)
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:20, Reply)

My childhood teddy was called Bonzo

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:05, Reply)

Kind of unusual to name your underwear, isn't it?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:14, Reply)

hahaha
Damn those sexy kids
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:15, Reply)

Where you my dog?

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:15, Reply)

Character cannot be taught, it's inherent. You can see it in kids 6 months old.
Resilience and strength and how to try hard and work hard and not succumb to bloo bloos should be taught at home and in school, I reckon. 2 different areas of life innit.

Alt: old in joke with a friend. We've both used it -and rebeccaslicker - for years
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:23, Reply)

You have to beat it into them
Only language they understand, see?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:30, Reply)

Alt: Stems from something that I thought was funny when I was 16, when I set this account up

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:25, Reply)

So the Labour party have decided the best opposition to a prick like Gove is to install their own upper-class private school twit, with no idea about state schools?
Alt: Something something Andy Kershaw something WOMAD Dylan prick.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:30, Reply)

^This re Tristram^
Dodgy name, that.
(DBT became a fruitarian on, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:43, Reply)

You'd think they'd have learnt from Ed Balls vs George Osbourne that installing some prick ho equally doesn't know what he's talking about wasn't they way forward.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 10:33, Reply)

Both come largely from dealing with challenges and adversity.
Which the government seems to try to ban at every opportunity.

Alt: Sitting there, thinking 'Why am I reading this crap?'...Well, it beats work.
(BeatsWork, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:40, Reply)

Like everything else in education, an utter waste of time unless backed up by the parents.
Too many parents would rather argue the toss with teachers cos they're convinced that little Jimmy/Jocinta can do no wrong, when in fact they're a little shit.

Kids do well at school if their parents spend time with them. When the parents can't be added, the kids suffer. None of this has anything to do with poverty either, middle class parents/kids are some of the worst.

alt: cos I live in a little village, but wasn't born here like most of the natives, so am not "local". Bit League of Gentlemen" at times.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:42, Reply)

Very true
If I'd gone home and said I'd got into strife, it sure as hell wouldn't be the teacher getting a bollocking..
I blamez the pairents, innit.
(BeatsWork, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:46, Reply)

Please place boarding schools into your statement

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:48, Reply)

+ as for some unknown reason, most people who post on here went to one

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:50, Reply)

Because in general boarding school pupils
get higher grades than comp schools and therefore are able to be in jobs where they are afforded greater freedom.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:52, Reply)

Citation needed

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:55, Reply)

www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/isuzu-trooper-citation
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:02, Reply)

there wer a lot of stats when I went to school that boarding schools on average achieved higher exam results
I don't know if its still true,
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:03, Reply)

Plus you learn from an early age that your parents hate the sight of you

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:03, Reply)

The realization usually comes
right about the time the house captain has you and your fellow first years drop your pants and bend over, so he can use you as a toast rack.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:06, Reply)

Ah happy memories

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:18, Reply)

Ah now, quite a lot of /OT's population wen to boarding schools and they've all turned out totes normal.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 10:45, Reply)

Well I don't know about anyone else, but I'm convinced by this reasoning

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:05, Reply)

In that scenario the teachers have effectively replaced parents, for term time at least.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:51, Reply)

A friend of mine maintains that parents have very little to do with a child's behaviour
And that children learn from other children, not authority figures.

My name comes from my being a fan of rock band New Model Army, who have a song called Vagabonds.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:44, Reply)

Saw them a good while back.
'Vengeance'lp?
(DBT became a fruitarian on, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:46, Reply)

Quite a while back, then - 30 years ish.
I saw them in November - they're being celebrated for a late-career return to form.

I've rarely seen them anything but excellent - tight, controlled and powerful. They're a very good band.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:00, Reply)

They pretty much raise themselves nowadays, what with television and the internet

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:47, Reply)

Precisely this.
I like the people who decry televisions as surrogate nannies, and then stick 2yo Jocasta on the iPad the moment the alarm goes off in the morning.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:01, Reply)

Why has noone said alright yet?
Office wallahasDozer not In yet?
(DBT became a fruitarian on, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:45, Reply)

I was enjoying that bit!

(BeatsWork, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:47, Reply)

Yes made a change!

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:52, Reply)

alright

(katie hopkins telling it where its at, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:48, Reply)

Cheers

(BeatsWork, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 8:49, Reply)

Alt: I picked the name of an employee in the building I was holding hostages in to fool an off-duty cop
It didn't work but I kept it going on here
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:16, Reply)

I think character and resilience are part nature/part nurture and not a lot to do with teaching.
Username is a nickname I was given by some guys I used to train with.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:19, Reply)

You can only make yourself resilient
No-one can "teach" it

Alt:
A drunken conversation about sports cars and me liking cows ended up with sportscow
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:20, Reply)

When you say, 'liking cows'?

(BeatsWork, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:35, Reply)

Bumming only
I'm the James Herriot of Whitley Bay
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:40, Reply)

I must have missed that chapter of 'vet in harness'..
Next thread it is..
(BeatsWork, Wed 12 Feb 2014, 9:42, Reply)