7/1/2023 0 Comments Neatness and tidinessIt is because the air inside is breathing continuously by all of us and the bacteria and virus in the rubbish like tissues used by classmates, packing of the food will stay in the air if we just put rubbish everywhere inside the classroom. In the classroom where nearly forty students learning and sitting together in such small area, the environment will need to be clean enough. First of all, the purposes of keeping clean and tidy include health, beauty absence of disgusting smells and to avoid the spread of dirt from one to another. If we don’t then we will need to face number of possible problems. To order a copy for £12, including mainland UK p&p, go to Oliver on Twitter.It is important to keep and maintain clean environment in our classroom at any time. The Antidote: Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, by Oliver Burkeman, is published by Canongate at £15. And what's true love about, if not sneaky point-scoring like that? You can't eliminate your partner's disorganised ways, but you can organise the disorganisation. The only viable solution the experts offer is "zoning": demarcating areas where messiness or tidiness rules. Relationship advice forums, online and off, heave with complaints from neatness lovers about living with "slobs", though less of the reverse, since untidy types don't tend to find tidiness galling in itself. We more moderate neatniks, psychologists suggest, are driven by a desire to assuage anxiety and feel in control, but so what? The fact that a behaviour has a hidden cause doesn't automatically mean it's bad. Somehow, it's unsurprising to learn that Melvil Dewey, the library categoriser who changed his name from "Melville" because the excess letters bothered him, was also racist: he loved orderly dividing lines of the bigoted variety, too. True, pleasure-in-neatness can also be taken too far, bordering at its extremes on something more sinister. It's important to distinguish neat-freakery from obsessive-compulsive disorder: what makes OCD a disorder is that the sufferer doesn't enjoy their rituals, that they get in the way. I've been a knoller all this time without knowing it. It emerged from the workshop of Frank Gehry, who was then making furniture for Knoll and whose staff knolled his studio regularly. And you can imagine my delight on learning that 2012 is the 25th anniversary – a pleasing number, better than 24 or 26 – of the invention of the word "knolling", defined as "the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90-degree angles as a method of organisation". I'm thinking, above all, of the blog Things Organized Neatly, although the image-sharing service Pinterest has also become a hub for neatniks, who post photos of tidily arranged things on "pinboards" that are themselves neatly organised. Speaking as a person who enjoys arranging my groceries on the supermarket belt so as to use the space in an optimal fashion, I've been thrilled to witness the recent awakening of neat pride. One sad legacy of "anal retentiveness" is that it has cast suspicion on the simple pleasures of being a neat freak. Critics of Freud have suggested that he often constructed his supposedly universal theories on similarly shaky ground, but I think we all know they're just suffering from repressed attraction to their mothers. It arose in an era when families were large and indoor plumbing was new, argues the psychoanalyst Robert Galatzer-Levy: bowel-related matters probably did figure centrally in the life of young Sigmund, as he waited for his siblings to finish in the bathroom. Few ideas of Freud's stand more discredited than his claim about the importance of bowel control in the formation of personality. 'Y ou are anal retentive," reads a possibly apocryphal T-shirt, "if you wonder whether there should be a hyphen in 'anal retentive'." As methods of psychiatric diagnosis go, this isn't great – but then again, "anal retentiveness" is itself a bogus notion.
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