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OUR ATTITUDE TO CORRECTION

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When I was in Primary School, years ago, I learnt a poem about a goat. My teacher said a goat is a domestic animal that goes through lots of severe punishment because of its acts of disobedience. The poem advised children not to behave like a goat, the disobedient animal.             Well I think this poem is written after a long study and research of this animal “goat”. If we rear goats or we have some goats in our vicinity, we will see how stubborn a goat is. Many times you chase a goat from going to a particular place but it won’t take to correction. What is our attitude to correction?  How do we respond when we are being corrected? I feel bad when I see people who refuse to admit that they wrong.             Majority of people do not understand that the reason why they are being corrected is for their life to better than it is. Looking at the life of young people today, many youths do not like to take corrections, they feel they are matured enough to know the right thing and