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Gum for the eyes
English
Phraseologism: Gum for eyes.
Meaning: A boring, meaningless spectacle (contemptuously, ironically).
Origin: From English: Chewing gum for eyes. The expression is attributed to the American politician D. Brown, as well as the architect A. Wright.
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Hunger is not an aunt.
Meaning:
About an extremely difficult situation, forcing to any action.
Origin:
The saying is part of a proverb recorded back in the XNUMXth century and clear in its content: hunger is not an aunt, she will not slip a pie, that is, an aunt (kuma, mother-in-law) will help in difficult cases, feed hearty and tasty, and hunger can only push many undesirable acts. |
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Whether a student will study well or badly depends on a lot of things. For example, he may not have everything in order at home, and problems in the family do not contribute to academic success. Or he - or she - may be restless and inattentive, and more interested, so to speak, in social life, and not in school subjects.
Finally, there are things like depression and anxiety. Of course, when it comes to higher nervous activity, the human psyche, such factors are interrelated. However, the same anxiety and depression are not always due to problems in the family or due to problems with comrades. And psychologists, using the methods of mathematical statistics, are quite capable of considering how various external and internal factors separately affect our lives.
Researchers from the University of Montreal analyzed how anxiety and depression affect the success of high school students in Quebec. The authors of the work observed the academic success of almost five thousand schoolchildren - some of them were not able to graduate from high school in a normal time.
It was expected that the dependence on anxiety here would be simple: the more anxious a person entered school, the more likely he was not to graduate. In fact, it turned out that the students with average anxiety did best. Most often, those who were worried about little at all were expelled - they left school 40% more often than those who had anxiety at an average level; as for those who were too anxious, they were expelled 30% more often than "average anxious".
The strange dependence of study on anxiety was not associated either with socioeconomic circumstances or with any behavioral characteristics of students. The harm from high anxiety is intuitive - it simply does not allow you to concentrate on classes.
As for low anxiety, the authors of the work believe that such students do not worry about their studies at all. It is clear that in order to study well, you need at least some interest in what you are learning, but interest in the subject and the learning process is inevitably associated with a little, but still stress. Therefore, it turns out that students with average anxiety were more likely to graduate from school.
With depression, everything also turned out to be difficult - it turned out that it harms those who study well most of all. That is, if a person showed himself well at first, and then depression happened to him, then his subsequent failure will be deeper - compared to those who did not study brilliantly even without depression.
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