The teacher lost his job because he cruelly berated students who made mistakes.

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Bush did not apologize for the attack, nor did he reprimand those who ordered it.

He can scold a tack that Francis has so far tried to avoid but he cannot convince.

But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.

But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all

Bush has echoed that sentiment, telling CNN ahead of his trip to the summit that admonishing the Russian president in public on matters such as democracy and human rights would be counterproductive. No leader likes to be scolded publicly, he said.

Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman, who berates the Fed for not opening the monetary sluice far wider, showed the follies of the crude Keynesian approach nearly a decade ago.

In his 2004 book The Trouble with Physics The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, Lee Smolin reproached the physics profession for being seduced by beautiful and elegant theories (notably string theory) rather than those that can be tested by experimentation.

On occasion, he has berated the Europeans for insufficient support not a good tactic for someone trying to join the EU and has used rhetoric about Russia that, while understandable, only increases the danger to himself.

Bush has echoed that sentiment, telling CNN ahead of his trip to the summit that admonishing the Russian president in public on matters such as democracy and human rights would be counterproductive. No leader likes to be scolded publicly, he said.

Bush did not apologize for the attack, nor did he reprimand those who ordered it. Apparently, he believes that the chance of killing an important terrorist leader is sufficient justification for firing a missile that will almost certainly kill innocent human beings.

There is also the question of consistency. One cannot credibly thump the table about human rights in one country, but keep one s opinions to oneself in another an all too common occurrence when, say, a trade deal might suffer.