Teachers Must Be Encouraged - I Almost

I Align Myself With Almost All Researchers In Assuming That Anything We Do Is A Composite Of Whatever Genetic Limitations Were Given To Us By Our Parents And Whatever Kinds Of Environmental Opportunities Are Available.

When Speaking To Parents, I Encourage Them To Take Their Child(ren) To A Children's Museum And Watch Carefully What The Child Does, How She/she Does It, What He/she Returns To, Where There Is Definite Growth. Teachers Could Do The Same Or Could Set Up 'play Areas' Which Provide 'nutrition' For Different Intelligences... And Watch Carefully What Happens And What Does Not Happen With Each Child.

Best Of All, Persons Can Sometimes Be App-transcendent: Making Dramatic Progress Or Discoveries, Without Any Dependence On Any App. In This Context, I Like To Mention Steve Jobs. While He Had As Much To Do As Anyone With The Invention And Development Of Apps, He Never Was Limited By The Current Technology - Indeed, He Typically Transcended It And Relied On His Own Considerable Wits.

I’d Rather See The United States As A Beacon Of Good Work And Good Citizenship, Rather Than As #1 On Some International Educational Measurement.

A Good Person Is One Who Follows The Ten Commandments And The Golden Rule. There Is Plenty Of Precedent In History To Guide Us And We Probably Evolved To Be Sensitive To Bible-golden Rule Situations. But The Dilemmas Faced By A Worker - A Journalist, An Architect, An Auditor - Or By A Citizen (what Position To Take On Stem Cell Research, Whether To Run For Office, What Is The Proper Balance Between Taxation And Social Nets) - Are Not Questions That Can Be Answered By Traditional Texts Or Precedents.