From Religious Toleration to Religious Profusion
Religion. If the word turns you off, bare with me for 600 more words. It’s not about whether you believe in God or not. It’s not even about what you believe. It’s about how you access your whole self....
View ArticleNoticing What Matters
In most schools the parent-teachers conversation doesn’t go deep enough. Here’s an example of a conversation that goes deeper: Teacher1: “Yesterday in Malka’s math group the three boys got into an...
View ArticleTrusting the Path of Kharakter
Seventheen-month-old Zoe begins her life as an artist. Zoe’s mother gave her a box of colored chalk, and took her into the back yard. Talking all the while, her mother showed her how to make an apple...
View ArticleWeaving Webs of Weavers
Last week I discovered that I am a weaver in league with hundreds of other weavers all over the world.News of world problems often brings my mind to the continuing sorry state of education in America....
View ArticleTurn Conflict into Collaboration: A Nickel Gambit
Mary, the physical education teacher, sent Nina to my office for disrespectful behavior. The level of teacher frustration and the repeated offenses caused me to call the parents and ask them to come in...
View ArticleHeaven Can Wait; But Why Would You Want It To?
It’s Not True, what we’ve been told, that heaven has to wait until we die. Thinking I would have to make my case someday, I spent my whole life in the hell of bettering, bettering myself and others,...
View ArticleFinding Your Self Can Be Quite a Journey
There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to folly—Daniel Dennett In 1943, Ann Lake was born into a prominent Washington, D.C. family. She was expected to be good....
View ArticleA student problem (revisited)
from Mandy August 18, 2010 at 6:43 am “Any advice for Ruben’s parents? My son will be entering Kindergarten and I’m certain that the behaviors you described are inevitable. He’s very smart and also...
View ArticleGenius, Thriving and the Human Spark
It seems Peter Benson and I have the same fantasy: parents, teachers and children sharing a common understanding of the centrality of genius in the education of each person, and seeing each child as...
View ArticleWhat a Great Teacher Told Me
Teacher Joe says: I greet the kids at the door when they come in. Greet each one with a smile and a warm hello A handshake or pat on the back or a little joke that says, “welcome! Glad you’re here....
View Article“Empowering” Your Child
A mother once came to me complaining that her fifteen-year-old daughter couldn’t find her way around town. She wondered what sort of learning disability that indicated. She had been doing well in...
View ArticleThe Education of Character
Kharakter, n.The imprint that the gods put on your soul at birth. …it must be regretted that Richard’s education had not…directed his character. He had been eight years at a public school and had...
View ArticleHow to Buy What Schools Can Be
here’s the link direct to the publisher: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475873467 The post How to Buy What Schools Can Be appeared first on THE GENIUS IN CHILDREN.
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