input: Chapter II

Harry Clavering Chooses His Profession

Harry Clavering might not be an usher, but, nevertheless, he was home for the holidays. And who can say where the usher ends and the school-master begins? He, perhaps, may properly be called an usher, who is hired by a private schoolmaster to assist himself in his private occupation, whereas Harry Clavering had been selected by a public body out of a hundred candidates, with much real or pretended reference to certificates of qualification. He was certainly not an usher, as he was paid three hundred a year for his work--which is quite beyond the mark of ushers. So much was certain; but yet the word stuck in his throat and made him uncomfortable. He did not like to reflect that he was home for the holidays.

But he had determined that he would never come home for the holidays again. At Christmas he would leave the school at which he had won his appointment with so much trouble, and go into an open profession. Indeed he had chosen his profession, and his mode of entering it. He would become a civil engineer, and perhaps a land surveyor, and with this view he would enter himself as a pupil in the great house of Beilby & Burton. The terms even had been settled. He was to pay a premium of five hundred pounds and join Mr. Burton, who was settled in the town of Stratton, for twelve months before he placed himself in Mr. Beilby's office in London. Stratton was less than twenty miles from Clavering. It was a comfort to him to think that he could pay this five hundred pounds out of his own earnings, without troubling his father. It was a comfort, even though he had earned that money by "ushering" for the last two years. 1. how many candidates was Harry picked out of?
2. what was his job?
3. had he been hired by public school?
4. did he want to return home for the holidays?
5. what did he want to become?
6. what was he home for?
7. how far away was Stratton from Henry?
8. who was he meeting there?
9. for how long?
10. when was he going to leave school?
11. what was he planning to do?
12. what place did he want to become a pupil of?
13. who had he been hired by?
14. how much would he be paid?
15. is that more than a regular usher? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. out of a hundred
2. an usher
3. no
4. no
5. a civil engineer
6. the holidays.
7. less than twenty miles
8. Mr. Burton
9. twelve months
10. At Christmas
11. go into an open profession
12. the great house of Beilby & Burton
13. a private schoolmaster
14. three hundred a year
15. yes

input: Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years old, and did not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers worried about his rnenta1ability.

Beethoven's music teacher said about him,"As a composer he is hopeless." What if this young boy believed it?

When Thomas Edison was a young boy,his teachers said he was so stupid that he could never learn anything.He once said,''I remember I used to never be able to get along at schoo1.I was always at the foot of my class...My father thought I was stupid,and I almost decided that l was a stupid person."What if young Thomas believed what may said about him?

When the sculptor Auguste Rodin was young; he had difficulty learning to read and write.:. Today, we may say he had a learning disability. His father said of him, "I have an idiot for a son. "His uncle agreed. "He's uneducable," he said. What if Rodin had doubted his ability?

Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper editor because he was thought to have no "good ideas". Enrico Caruso was told by one music teacher, "you can't sing. You have no voice at all. " And an editor told Louisa May Alcott that she was unable to write anything that would have popular appeal.

What if these people had listened and become discouraged? Where would our world be without the music of Beethoven, the art of Rodin or the ideas of Albert Einstein and Walt Disney? As Oscar Levant once said, "It's not what you are but what you don't become that hurts. "

You have great potential.When you believe in all you can be, rather than all you cannot become, you will find your place on earth. 1. When did Albert Einstein learn to speak?
2. When did he start reading?
3. Were people worried about him? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. When he was 4.
2. age 7
3. Yes

input: Online with Linda Sheila Posted 18-12-18.25 I'm very worried about my friend,Joleen.She's thin but she thinks she is fat.She is always on a diet.She thinks it's necessary for her to lose more weight.She wants to be model.She has photographs of thin models on her bedroom walls.I think she's getting too thin,but if I talk to her about this,she get worried .How can I help her? Simon Posted 18-12-19.00 Sometimes ,I'm concerned about the pressure I get from my frinds.For example,yesterday I was with a group of frinds.We saw a woman lying on the street.She looked very sick.My friends made some jokes about her and laughed,but I wanted to help her.However,my friends told me not to,and I listened to them.Now I feel ashamed.It was cruel of my friends to laugh at her but I wasn't strong enough to say anything. Dear Sheila, You are right to be worried about friend,Joleen.This is a serious problem.She should not continue to be on a diet if she is very thin,she may have an illness called "anorexia".Anorexia people are afraid of eating food.You must advise her to see a doctor soon. If she won't do that,you should talk to her parents or to a teacher. Dear Simon, You feel ashamed because you should have helped the woman.You are right.Your friends were cruel to that woman.We all want our friend to like us.But we don't have to follow our friends all the time.You're a good boy.You should be strong enough to make up your own mind next time. 1. What are Anorexic people afraid of?
2. Who was Sheila worried about?
3. Is Joleen fat?
4. Who felt ashamed for not helping a woman lying on the street?
5. Who was he with?
6. What did Simon's friends tell him not to do?
7. What was Sheila told she should advise Joleen to do?
8. And what if she wouldn't do that? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. eating food
2. her friend,Joleen
3. She's thin
4. Simon
5. unknown
6. help her
7. advise her to see a doctor soon
8. should talk to her parents or to a teacher