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Friendship will not last.' Do you agree with this statement? Write a short response of 100-150 words, bearing in mind that you should write in standard English.

General Comments on 'Your best friend may not be your best working partner'.

After reading all your entries, I'v come to the realisation that most of you shared similar thoughts on the issue. Most of you have agreed with the comment and shared your personal experience. i offer my sympathy to those who have personally experienced a painful situation of having worked with your best friend and it did not work out well. In my opinion, a best friend may not be your best working partner, simply because of the fact that everyone is different and no matter how close you are to someone, this person may have a different working style from yours and this difference could give rise to conflicts under stressful working conditions. I was intrigued by a comment written by one of you which mentioned about the expectation of a friend. "Your best friend may push the job to you knowing that you have to help him/her as a friend." Do we take our best friend for granted? Is that what friendship is about? Honestly, the student who wrote this comment is very perceptive, because in life, some of us do take our friends for granted. We expect the world from them YET we give so little of ourselves. Hence, let us try to better ourselves, so that not only are we someone else's best friend, we are also someone else's best working partner.

Cheers, Mrs Lena Low

'Your best friend may not be your best working partner." Do you agree with this statement? Write a short response of 100-150 words, bearing in mind that you should write in standard English.

General comments on 'Learning can only be done on the part of the learner. No one can force the learner to learn.'

I believe that almost all of you agreed with the statement and have provided sound reasons as to why you think learning can only be done on the part of the learner. As for me, I totally agree with the comment as learning involves engaging the hearts and minds. Humans store knowledge in their mind and it is only when this body of knowledge is internalised will there be learning. I particularly like an analogy used by one of you (read through your class's comments and you will know who). In his post, he mentioned that forcing a learner to learn is like forcing a cow to drink when it is not thirsty. I would like to add on to the analogy, "even if you know that the cow is dying of thirst, all you can do is to bring the cow to the river. The cow has to save itself by drinking the water." Hence, teachers, with their vast experiences, are concerned with the learning of the students simply because of the fact that they know that some students are 'dying' due to a lack of knowledge and learning, so they try their best to provide the students with all possible resources, yet, it is up to the students to 'save' themselves.

Mrs Lena Low