Ritualization facilitates comprehension and retention. As the saying goes, "repetition is the mother of teaching".

Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the Moon, once said you should shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss, you can shoot for the moon instead. The thought is a powerful reminder ...

A PROVERB, says the Oxford Dictionary, is ‘a short pithy saying in common and recognized use; a concise sentence, often metaphorical or alliterative in form, which is held to express some truth ...

Translation: The hungry dreams of the bread market. Meaning: People dream of the things they need most. The unemployed dream of jobs, while the homeless dream of an abode. This proverb is still in use ...

Variations of this adage can be traced back to biblical times and are based on the experiences of mariners who sailed the Earth’s middle latitudes, where storms generally travel from west to east. The ...

Proverbs belongs to the so-called wisdom literature of the Old Testament and cannot be fully understood without some knowledge of this literary genre. In some measure wisdom is found amongst all ...

Meaning: This is one of a genre of proverbs that encourages you to trust in your first impression. If someone starts talking and the first words out of their mouth are stupid, then it’s safer to stop ...

I must commend our author, Loolo Florence Chinyere Duru, for her deep interest in the Igbo language and its proverbs. Proverbs are the wisdom of a people in a nutshell. Complex stories and situations ...

If proverbs are indeed the practical wisdom of a nation, then what do Polish proverbs have to tell us about the wisdom of the Poles? As common Polish wisdom has it, there’s supposed to be a proverb ...