“One of our modern sages recently said, ‘Character needs no organ; it acts by simply being.’  No one can escape this truth.  Its power appeared as long ago as the days of the youth of Cyrus the Great.  When he was sent out for the first time as commander of a warlike expedition, he asked his father how he could seem to be great and noble.  The wise Cambyses, without hesitation, answered, ‘By being so’…”

~ a life lesson from an 1885 edition of Journal of Education published in Massachusetts...

Happy belated Norooz (native Zoroastrian Iranian new year) … as many mourn the tragedies of today in Belgium, may enough citizens across the world awaken to make 2016 (year 2575 Imperial Iran) the year of leadership …

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