While both similes and metaphors are used to make comparisons, the difference between similes and metaphors comes down to a word. Similes use the words like or as to compare things—“Life is like a box of chocolates.” In contrast, metaphors directly state a comparison—“Love is a battlefield.”

Here are some examples of similes and metaphors:

Life is like a box of chocolates. (Simile) 

My life is an open book. (Metaphor) 

That baby is as cute as a button!(Simile) 

Baby, you’re a firework.(Metaphor)

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Strengthens the community outside the school

Empathy is the ability that helps children understand the feelings of others. When children learn to empathize with others, it deepens their relationships — not just in the classroom but outside school. Children develop stronger relationships with all those they interact with — elders, parents, relatives, family friends, neighbors and with other children.

Prepares Learners to emerge as Future Leaders

Empathy defines real leaders and differentiates true leaders from merely popular ones. To emerge as true and trusted leader, one must be able to understand and relate with others based on trust and respect. Empathy strengthens trust and deepens respect.

Irrespective of the professions our children will select in the future, to be effective leaders, they must be able to build and preserve relationships of trust with all those in their sphere of influence. Empathy is a key ingredient towards building relationships based on respect. It is the single most important factor while selection of senior leadership in some of the most respected organizations around the world.

We are advised to behave in a rational manner. Apply logic and science, say experts, so you do not fall into the pit of probabilities and irrational decision-making. That's because irrational thoughts enter our brains and affect our actions more often than we'd admit, say experts who point out that irrationality seems to carry plenty of drawbacks. But this gives overworked brains some rest.

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WE CAN SOLVE OUR ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AND REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE BY REWILDING OUR FORESTS AND RECONNECTING PEOPLE TO NATURE

PASSING OF A LEGEND 

The recently deceased Sunderlal Bahuguna was a beacon of the Indian environmental movement . A home-grown environmentalist who steered a spontaneous ‘Chipko Movement’ of the 1970s into a strong people’s movement and saved the forests of the great Himalayas and the forest-based livelihoods of its indigenous communities was a living image of unfettered dedication.

Best finding ever: Coffee waste is great for growing forests

In March, the ‘British Ecological Society’ reported an unexpected finding of a study: Spreading coffee pulp, a waste product from coffee production, over degraded lands helps them recover quickly. According to the report, the study’s researchers (from ETHZurich and the University of Hawaii) spread 30 truck loads of coffee pulp on a 35X40m area of degraded land in Costa Rica. In only two years, the area treated with coffee pulp had not only turned into a small forest, but it was rich in nutrients including carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. This has turned out to be great news for degraded agricultural lands that have poor soil quality!

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THEME FOR 2022

The slogan for World Environment Day 2022 is ‘Only One Earth’ which was originally used at the Stockholm Conference. The slogan underlines that Earth continues to be the only habitable planet we have, and calls for revolutionary actions to restore the balance between humans and the natural world. And a better future for us all.

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The most important worldwide day for the environment is World Environment Day, which is on June 5. The event, which has been conducted every year since 1974 and is organised by UNEP, has grown to become the largest worldwide platform for environmental outreach, with millions of people from all over the world participating to safeguard the planet.