IF, Rudyard Kipling

IF.....

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, ' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Matrix

Copio y pego del blog "Criterio".

Junio 20, 2007

Castellano fácil

Carta de una lectora de El Periódico publicada hoy:

"Aprobado seguro", "imposible de fallar", "un auténtico regalo", "más fácil que el de catalán", era lo que se oía a la salida del examen de castellano de la selectividad en Barcelona. Como todos los años, en Catalunya el nivel de exigencia de la prueba de castellano ha sido mínimo. Y dentro de unos días, también como todos los años, la Generalitat enseñará las notas de castellano, artificialmente elevadas gracias al fácil carácter que le dan intencionadamente al examen con el fin de poder decir luego que no son necesarias más horas de castellano en las escuelas. ¿A quién pretenden engañar?

Victoria B. Martín. Barcelona