Stories of Wise
Stories of Wise
List of educational resources for parents and teachers to read online, to download in PDF format, or to listen to as audio stories
Our stories are a great tool to improve the education of your children and enhance your family atmosphere. Whether in family or in the classroom, as audio or as reading, using pictures or simple text, parents and teachers will discover with them a new way to successfully teach values to children, while enjoying each and every learning minute.
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List including all our stories about Wise . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
Educational Value
- Sincerity and guile
Basic elements
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| The truth will always come out, because there’s always someone who knows. | A palace | A King and a dwarf |
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In the palace of Rubyland there was a ruby thief. No one knew who it was, and the thief had everyone so fooled that the only thing known about him was that he lived in the palace...
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Educational Value
- Generosity
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| When we attach ourselves to purely material things we are only making ourselves poorer, even though we may have more things | A cave in a mountain | A man, a woman, and an old man |
Story intro
Once, a man was walking on a mountain when he found an incredible cave. Stored inside were all kinds of treasure and precious stones, and when he saw it, the man concealed the cave entrance and stayed there, guarding it.From that day on, the man would...
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Educational Value
- Justice and fairness
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| Three brief adventures to illustrate the nature of justice | A journey through an ancient kingdom | A Prince and a wise old man |
Story intro
There was once a very unfair Prince, although he seemed like the perfect Prince: handsome, brave, and intelligent. Prince Lapio gave the impression that no one had ever explained to him the nature of justice. If two people came to him over some dispute, expecting him to resolve the matter, he would decide in favour of whichever...
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Educational Value
- Humility and willingness to learn
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| We should never give up learning. Nor should we ever think we know everything | An ancient kingdom | Wincey Wise, the King, the King’s advisers |
Story intro
Wincey Wise was a young lady who worked cleaning the King's advisers’ building. She was a very intelligent and studious girl, and wasn't going to waste the opportunity of being around these wise men. Even so, after a year there, listening to their meetings through the keyhole, she was worried. The wise men never ...
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Educational Value
- Joie de vivre
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| Our greatest obstacle to happiness is our own self, with its fears, vain preoccupations, and negative patterns of thought | The fairytale world and the real world | A knight and a wise old man |
Story intro
There was once a heroic knight. He was one of the knights whose triumphant deeds are still recounted in the old stories, in all languages, everywhere. His bravery was great, and his sword was feared, but he was tired of hunting for dragons, ogres and monsters in story after story. He decided to...
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Educational Value
- Humility and homeliness
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| Happiness is not to be found in the showy and sophisticated things in life, but rather in the right way to approach life and live it. | A faraway kingdom | Two princesses and a key |
Story intro
Once upon a time there was a kingdom with an ancient prophecy that spoke of a Princess without a palace. The prophecy said that as soon as that Princess found her palace, she would be the wisest and fairest Queen there had ever been. That kingdom had a royal family who had lived in a beautiful palace for generations. But there was a great...
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Educational Value
- Generosity
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| Everything we give to others will, sooner or later, return to us, whether or not it be in a form we expected | A town | A rich man and a mathematician |
Story intro
Once upon a time, a greedy, rich man hired a great mathematician. The rich man wanted the mathematician to find the best way for him to make the greatest profit in everything he did. The rich man was building a huge safe, and his greatest dream was to fill it with...
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