That squawking chicken in a suit really needs to read this
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9596616/A-poor-school-report-is-no-barrier-to-success-just-look-at-Prof-Sir-John-Gurdon.html
‘A poor school report is no barrier to success’, ahseb u ara a very good school report.
You posted this item maybe beacuse you only managed to get a degree in archeology? Go and get a life and leave others to live their life.
[Daphne – A degree in archaeology is a lot more demanding than a law degree. There is no ‘only’ about it, I can assure you. People with degrees in archaeology are able to understand what that statement means: that the nature of school reports is no indicator of a person’s abilities or success in adult life. Franco and Professor Gordon are both examples of this.]
Typical karta tal-incova logic. Time to close down these useless departments presumably.
That’s right. We’ll just have the three essentials: medicine (heqq, ghax tabib dejjem tridu), architecture (heqq ghax il-Perit kien perit) and law (heqq, ghax Malta tibqa’ Malta).
Ahseb u ara a good school report? Bollocks. There is no link between success and school reports. Social class, on the other hand…
…and re-introduce obtaining a licence to import a computer paying hefty duties and taxes and begging a minister for the import permit!
Mintoffians are so afraid of the past that even archaeology scares them.
Dammit, I wish I gave it archaeology a go after my History A-Level. Will always be one of the biggest regrets I’ll ever have =/ . (No Sarcasm)
[Daphne – You don’t need a history A-level. Archaeology is not history – obviously.]
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
I suppose the same applies for a wife :)
[Daphne – Well, I am married to a much older man, so there you go.]
‘Franco and Professor Gordon are both examples of this’. but please next time round qualify your statement better by clarifying that they are at the extreme opposite ends of the spectrum.
Din l-injoranza grassa minn fejn gibtha? Minn xi lecture tal-ligi?
Kun af li hafna iktar essenzjali min avukat tal-habba gozz huwa Lewis, u l-Lewises kollha tal-pajjiz, li jigi jigriblna iz-zibel kuljum.
X’naghmlu minghajru ghidli? Franco on the other hand…
He could have said it “A top student is not a guarantee for success.’
Churchill is another example of someone with unremarkable school reports who went on to win a Nobel prize.
In Churchill’s case the Nobel was just a consolation prize.
Winston Churchill was, by far, the greatest statesman that has ever lived.
He delivered the entire world, as we know it, from an imminent disaster of unimaginable proportions.
He was the architect of victory against the greatest of evils that has ever threatened mankind.
He was also a writer of merit.
Einstein was another one.
School reports certify only one thing – one’s performance in that particular set of exams at that point in time – and nothing more.
In Franco Debono’s case, one may also read between the lines of the news report about his school report:
1. Debono is neurotically obsessed with being seen as having great potential, the fulfilment of which is only frustrated by the actions of others;
2. he is hyper sensitive to any suggestion that he is not normal, he suffers (badly) from status anxiety;
3. he has absolutely no self-awareness;
4. he doesn’t understand irony;
5. he has no sense of humour;
6 he was a total bore as a school boy;
7. he is a total boor now that he’s an adult.
La Redoute, the characteristics you mention are quite common in the Maltese. In the case of Dr Debono, they more evident.
In short, he proudly owns every letter of the four-lettered word starting with an uppercase C
Spot on. Why show us only the Form 2 results? Were they his very best? Were they a fluke obtained only after mummy threatened to roast his capons if he didn’t pull himself together?
Franco’s upset with Jason Azzopardi now. I think it’s the becoming a minister which gets to him, on the other hand, it didn’t.
Form 2 is an easy year. It is no great achievement to get high marks in this year. I am curious to see Franco’s exam results for the following years.
Rumour has it he had to resit some of his law exams.
So much for being a high flying, high achieving top student and criminal lawyer.
High as a kite, possibly?
Eqred u igdeb kemm tiflah ibni halli nitilghu fil-gvern.
Isa ghax ma nifilhux noqghodu minuta ohra fl-oppozzizjoni. Ma nifilhux aktar, irridu nitilghu issa.
Given who’s launched the consultation process, what will Franco do, protest he wasn’t consulted on how the consultation is done?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121010/local/government-launches-digital-rights-consultation.440466
Lest we forget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l2W-ndMUa4&feature=related
Franco’s school reports only prove one thing – he learned the skills of a pappagall.
He read the lines, he memorized the lines but never understood what they really meant.
And one must also mention that having good school grades does not imbue one with emotional intelligence.
There are many politicians, who are excellent scholars yet who fail miserably in the personal communications stakes.
To be a good politician you need to be a good actor first and foremost…not a dull pulcinell from the hasi school of acting though.
This is off subject. Was wondering if you saw the flyer advertising the book on mintoff published by Horizons. (Whoever they are)
The blurb states “Grupp ta’ analisti ssiehbu biex f’dan il-ktieb jaghtu tifkiriethom u jistudjaw l-impatt ta’ Mintoff fuq Malta – roqgha art li darba kienet kolonja imma illum membry fl-Unjoni Ewropea.”
By making that statement in the context of this book it really gives me the impression that they are seeking to give him some form of credit for the fact that today we are members of the EU, or is that just my impression? I am so tired of reading all the rewrites and the pathetic eulogies that perhaps at this stage I am just jaded.
Martin Scicluna’s was the latest and it was all the more disappointing because I would have thought that he would have known better. To claim that he knows what was going on because he read it in some report or because friends of his told him is totally ludricous – but then it is clear that the man has an opinion about everything and has become quite used to pontificating to the rest of us.
Ironically he is of the very ilk Mintoff would have kicked to high heavens at least after his flirtation with the idea of integration went belly up.
Klaus Vella Bardon’s article in last Sunday Times was a breath of fresh air. His was a more realistic assessment.
Chickenshit. The one word that sums up Franco Debono perfectly. Definition? Link provided below.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chicken%20shit
Gino Cauchi said on a Super 1 programme that TVM failed to report in its opening newscasts that Franco will vote against the budget. This has been proven not to be true. Way to go Gino! Looks like Joey has been giving you tips.
Nikita Zammit Alamango is officially a PL candidate on the 9th and 10th districts.
[Daphne – Lovely.]
@ Daphne
Read All About It! Debono’s Latest Spite!
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121010/local/debono-presents-motion-for-halt-and-review-of-st-philip-s-hospital-acquisition-process.440514
They (still) shoot horses don’t they? Hasn’t this tosser a life that he may call his own?
“The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.”
Francis Wright
Dear Daphne I think that this is sheer jealousy.Franco is doing his duty defending us..As for being a good student when in form 2,that was an indication for the future.IL-passat huwa garanzijja tal-futur.