How can scientists who still don’t understand the difference between hunters and farmers and have yet to discover a cure for the nonexistent disease, keep digging deeper into the hole of their ignorance to regulate the mystery?
We are still suffering from the Rockefellow idea of training good and obedient factory workers in our schools. One of my graduate school professors said that the goals of the American high school were social control and sorting.
Well, this is the extreme end of some fantasy threshold in my "what if" ponders. It didn't take AI to see indicators in my report cards from elementary school that the Kaiser Psych asked for (and got! Mom saved everything! There's another story...) when they got past treating me as a crackpot and finally recognized there was such a thing. "She's really bright, but....?" By the time I became "official," most of my youthful potential bridges had burned, with at least a significant component of ADHD. So I do wonder, what if it had been identified and defined and maybe applied to me earlier, and when might have made a difference? I benefitted from a high-stimulation home, academically. I value my creativity from panoramic curiosity and input-seeking now. "Taming" that with early-onset medication doesn't appeal to me much. But self-awareness and conscious self-regulation might have .... what if?
What a great catch on your part! As a Hunter myself, I went into teaching to set up classrooms that supported all kids. They were well-organized but not rigid rows of desks. I followed progressive ideas that I had learned from my own sons' progressive schools during the brief time in the 70s and 80s when the Plowden Report in England set the tone. My own three sons, even the one who was okay in regular public school, flourished in his progressive school.
How can scientists who still don’t understand the difference between hunters and farmers and have yet to discover a cure for the nonexistent disease, keep digging deeper into the hole of their ignorance to regulate the mystery?
We are still suffering from the Rockefellow idea of training good and obedient factory workers in our schools. One of my graduate school professors said that the goals of the American high school were social control and sorting.
Well, this is the extreme end of some fantasy threshold in my "what if" ponders. It didn't take AI to see indicators in my report cards from elementary school that the Kaiser Psych asked for (and got! Mom saved everything! There's another story...) when they got past treating me as a crackpot and finally recognized there was such a thing. "She's really bright, but....?" By the time I became "official," most of my youthful potential bridges had burned, with at least a significant component of ADHD. So I do wonder, what if it had been identified and defined and maybe applied to me earlier, and when might have made a difference? I benefitted from a high-stimulation home, academically. I value my creativity from panoramic curiosity and input-seeking now. "Taming" that with early-onset medication doesn't appeal to me much. But self-awareness and conscious self-regulation might have .... what if?
What a great catch on your part! As a Hunter myself, I went into teaching to set up classrooms that supported all kids. They were well-organized but not rigid rows of desks. I followed progressive ideas that I had learned from my own sons' progressive schools during the brief time in the 70s and 80s when the Plowden Report in England set the tone. My own three sons, even the one who was okay in regular public school, flourished in his progressive school.