When I was talking with Cyndi on the phone I remember saying, "The system actually seems to encourage differentiation not learning." The idea of something like Rock Band encourages people to learn how to play because the process is made to be fun at a rate that allows the person to gradually morph into figuring out the pattern as they deal with overcoming the blockage. The privacy of the act is also important. When I'm in front of other people I might feel more pathetic and less capable. This is why I think in our culture having a system set up where kids can take these systems in to their private room and cycle through the areas where they *want* to get better has two benefits. It allows them to move at their pace and it's self directed. America has more business leaders because we appreciate and encourage independent thought. Strictness defeats independent thinking. I'd rather kids have both.
D.J D.'s List: Quotes
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Mar 05, 11
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"I see it as my duty to show things as they are, not as they ought to be. I always speak the plain, naked truth. If men won't listen, that's their own fault, and they'll have to live with the consequences."-Alexander Hamilton
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A journalist wrote in 1933: "If you steal $25, you're a thief. If you steal $250,000, you're an embezzler. If you steal $2,500,000, you're a financier." (Liaquat Ahamed, "Lords of Finance," p. 441)
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What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.
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Lulu couldn't do it. We worked on it nonstop for a week, drilling each of her hands separately, over and over. But whenever we tried putting the hands together, one always morphed into the other, and everything fell apart. Finally, the day before her lesson, Lulu announced in exasperation that she was giving up and stomped off.
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But I'm a bit skeptical of Mr. Helfand's group, the Committee For Skeptical Inquiry. They seem to be on such a fierce mission to eradicate anything they deem unscientific or irrational that they come across like science jihadists, and to me that's worrisome.
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great skeptic David Hume asserted that "A wise man...proportions his belief to the evidence,"
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