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TEACHING THE HABITS OF RESPECT, PATIENCE AND DISCIPLINE The components that are required to teach efficiently and develop respect, patience and discipline in students are a peaceful and calm atmosphere, suitable facilities and equipment, and good approachable teachers who can manage and balance moral and academic studies. However, we should note that all this is to no avail if students have not been properly prepared for formal education in that they have developed the appropriate personal skills, values and habits in their early formative years within the home place or community in which they were raised and nurtured. If formative years have been neglected the teacher must first address a student's desire to take good personal care and to do good things. Then this will create the right conditions for the student to recognize and seek the benefits of a good education. EFFECTS OF HABITS FORMED AND CHOICES YOU MAKE The Law of Kamma We are all individual, each unique in our physical make-up and kamma. This is what makes one person different from another, even between identical twins. We have comebody and the Mind with the factors that influence their efficiency and operation but there is another factor that makes us who we are, and that is our kamma. Everyone is subject to the Law of Kamma. When we conduct ourselves in a moral and good way we are rewarded with good and desirable results. Some of the results will be apparent while others will be carried forward to our afterlife and future lives. The circumstances of our present life are results of the consequentiality of our thoughts and actions in previous lives. Living a good life is the preparation for being reborn as a human being in the next life in preferential circumstances. Alternatively, living a life with disregard to our human conduct and cognitive status as a species will create unfavourable kamma to the detriment of our future alternatives and rebirths. When TRAINING THE TRAINERS 52 53