![]() If the principal had said anything, Mister Carlton would respond by saying, “30,000 public school teachers quit in September!” But he would never do that. Students were just warehoused in the Media Center or Cafeteria. There were no substitute teachers to call this year. He would have to skulk by the principal, who, in truth, was simply glad another teacher had shown up for the day. Late again, Mister Carlton knew he would have to park in the visitor lot. Several others beeped and tooted, responding by being longer and louder. But customer service at the Dunkin’ Donut drive thru ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. If Mister Carlton had arrived at 7:43 a.m., he would have made it to his first period class on time. Even the bloated busses sat, impotent, lolling like orange elephants at the congested entrance to the school. What his father was really asking was: How much longer are you planning to live at home? Shouldn’t a man your age be able to provide for himself? Couldn’t you have selected a better major in college?Īt 7:49 a.m., the traffic had not budged. His father had asked him a question at dinner the previous evening: What kind of man wants to teach high school? It had been his mother’s, a car he inherited when he graduated from college with a teaching degree in social studies and more student loan debt than his entire first year salary. Mister Carlton angrily tapped the steering wheel of his 2000 Toyota Tercel. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English.The morning traffic jam at the high school peaked at 7:47 a.m., short tempered fathers slowing down to jettison their surly sons, mothers asking their daughters if they wanted to take an umbrella just in case, seniors cutting off all other cars to drive diagonally through the parking lot. It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. C., and perhaps there were more political than financial interests. The reasons why the coin was counterfeited are not clear, although Sinope was being disputed between Prosperous and Pro-Greek factions in the 4th century BC. ![]() and other coins of the time that bear the name of Hicesias as the official who minted them. A large number of counterfeit coins (minted with a large chisel) have been discovered in Sinope, dating from the middle of the 4th century BC. Apparently, these facts have been corroborated by archaeologists. Diogenes gloried in having been an accomplice of his father, and this event prefigured, in a way, his philosophical life. Both were exiled for having made counterfeit currency. Nothing is known about his childhood except that he was the son of a banker named Hicesias. The sage should tend to free himself from his desires and minimize his needs.ĭiogenes was born in the Ionian colony of Sinope, located on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in 412 BC. The principle of his philosophy is to renounce the conventional everywhere and oppose his nature to it. Honors and riches are false goods to be despised. According to him, virtue is the sovereign good. He occasionally went to Corinth where he continued the cynical idea of self-sufficiency: a natural life independent of the luxuries of society. His only belongings were: a mantle, a bag, a staff and a bowl (until one day he saw that a child was drinking the water he was collecting with his hands and he got rid of it). It is said that he lived in a jar, instead of a house, and that by day he walked the streets with a lighted lamp saying that he was "looking for (honest) men". ![]() Diogenes lived as a vagabond on the streets of Athens, making a virtue of extreme material poverty. he did not bequeath to posterity any writing the most complete source that is available about his life is the extensive section that Diogenes Laertius devoted to him in his Lives, Opinions, and Sentences of the Most Illustrious Philosophers.ĭiogenes was exiled from his hometown and moved to Athens, where he became a disciple of Antisthenes, the oldest pupil of Socrates. ![]() He was born in Sinope, an Ionian Black Sea colony, around 412 BC. Diogenes of Sinope (in Greek Διογένης or Diogenes or Sinopeus), also called Diogenes the Cynic, was a Greek philosopher belonging to the Cynic school. ![]()
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