The Principal of a CBSE school in Kerala attended a motivation course. Consequently, he decided to give more autonomy to the staff. That was one of the lessons he had learnt during the course. ‘Now you decide what to do in your classroom and other places of your influence,’ Principal now tells a teacher. ‘Will I be paid more?’ The teacher wants to know. ‘Money is not what matters,’ Principal says. ‘What matters is your contentment.’ He tells the teacher about Maslow’s pyramid and the importance of self-actualisation. ‘Will I be paid more?’ The teacher repeats his query. Principal takes out a book on motivation theory and asks the teacher to read it. ‘Will I be paid more if I read this?’ Dogmatism is the tendency to assert one’s prejudices or beliefs as undeniably true without consideration of evidence or the opinions of others. Dogmatism is very faithful to one’s beliefs or prejudices. Canine loyalty. The dogmatist will go on insisting that his religion, culture, lang...
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