http://www.positivepsychologyinstitute.com.au/images/MentalHealthSpectrum.jpg We certainly want a much larger proportion of the population residing in...
This is a deadly 'instrumental' approach: feeding children through the educational processing plant to prepare them to fill slots in the capitalist ma...
My idea of progressive education is about as far from current practice as factory farming is from having chickens wandering around the barnyard doing ...
In an ideal world, the goals of education would be to... First, aid the individual in discovering what his native traits are -- the who and what I am....
Both the ascetic and the engineer are extremely dedicated to the work and discipline. They both are probably somewhat indifferent about social nicetie...
As I indicated, I don't believe in education as it is now practiced in the US (and maybe elsewhere too), but "happiness" is a worthwhile goal IF happi...
Oh... the current education system... what a god damned fucking dreary topic. Around the time I was in teachers training, back in the mid-1960s, books...
Evolution operates through breeding, whether it's kind of choosy or a free-for-all (my favorite kind). I haven't read Quinn; is he a rivetingly good a...
I think what Wood meant is that you won't get credit for good outcomes, and you will be blamed for bad outcomes. Why? Because in spilling the beans, y...
Some marriages are mirages. Most seem to be mixtures of hopes, fears, love, high expectations, and at least in the beginning, enthusiastic commitment....
So, we monotheists think that our God wants us to be happy, and if we are clever, or very, very good we will figure out what the formulae is. Polythei...
This is a question I have pondered from a personal POV for decades. What the hell DO I want? At certain times it was clear enough. I wanted to be in c...
Setting aside what kind of world we would like to live in, we do -- in fact -- live in a world where right and wrong are often ambiguous, and the appr...
1) "Let them"? Who gives authority over people outside the relationship to "Let" anybody live the way they are living? 2) "Unhappy marriages"? Many ma...
I highly doubt we have acquired new traits - de novo. Traits are generally developed from previously existing traits, or potentials. (Like, writing an...
Some jobs (in the US at least) come with mandatory reporting requirements. If you, as a teacher for example, or social worker, or a few dozen other jo...
Agriculture stopped evolution? Nonsense. Think... Plagues continued after agriculture, and those who were most resistant to plague survived Chronic di...
Is it the severely disabled continuing to live that bothers you, or is the "taxpayer supplied checks"? Paleontologists found a Neanderthal skeleton of...
Keep reading. When will you be finished and have a full understanding of how modern life unfolded from the beginning of making stone tools? If you chi...
The squeaking wheel gets the grease. (That's a folk saying. Squeaking wheels are similar to complaining individuals. People who complain get fried in ...
I don't have a problem with your assumption that atheists must have religious beliefs, provided religion is sufficiently broadly defined, like "where ...
So, I'm seeing your point here. Minutia mongering: Excellent. I submit that we have probably passed our capacity to monger all the minutia we have to ...
How could an infinitely knowing, present everywhere at all times, unlimited in power being reveal the Divine Existence to primates who have been sort ...
So far, in my 72 years, I have met and interacted with one person who was not male or female sexually -- this 40 some years ago. This person was self-...
That's nice. They should be as progressive as they want; just keep it in the family. They seem to want everyone to march in lock step. Surely progress...
You may not be aware of the time and energy devoted to nouns and pronouns in liturgical circles. Where once (and still usually) the priest said, "in t...
If a particular person rejects gender, then I think they should deal with that decision themselves, and not require that everybody else also deal with...
The value of fiat currency comes from real production and trade. The cartoon desert island has nothing to sell, nobody wants to go there, and the two ...
I don't think we are getting anywhere. Nor do we have anywhere to get to. Were we to go on a tour of factories, I think we'd both point out the same t...
Who are the best? One instance where "the best" technology is bought, where tech is tech, is in the purchase of patents. Large tech operations sometim...
You can call it technology if you want, but if it's defined so broadly enough it could just as well be called output, production, GDP, or whatever. I'...
An economy might need consumers more than inventors. 70% of US GDP is personal consumption spending. I buy a little tech every now and then. Most of w...
True, and not true, maybe. I'm not all that knowledgeable about this. For a Roman, a gold coin was the value of gold. It didn't represent anything, it...
Creators, inventors, come up with new ideas. Labor brings them to fruition. In a capitalist economy workers are wage slaves and without paid work star...
A World Made by Hand is fiction. Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation and The Long Emergency are nonfiction. Simil...
Even philosophers will grant that emotions have a strong influence on how we "feel". Happy, sad, angry, loving, bored, etc. Philosophers generally do ...
What makes depression worse? Isolation. Loneliness. Boredom. Anger. Wallowing. Etc. What makes depression better? Engagement. Companionship. Interests...
I have known a couple of grandmas who told their little grand children that there was no Jesus, and no Santa Claus either. Good people, actually. Kind...
Word games. Like "I am an AIDS survivor" or "I am living with cancer". "I am not a "victim". That's nice, but you still have AIDS, cancer, whatever. A...
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock for 2018 at 11:58, p.m., or two minutes before midnight (Doomsday). Why 2 minutes, and not 10...
In another forum long ago and far away you asked if Pegasus existed. Literally? Figuratively? Millions of people will recognize a drawing of Pegasus; ...
I expect Jove will have to hurl lightning bolts from Mt. Olympus to so much as get their attention. Then turn them from anxious Anglicans to mild mice...
Any given human misfortune will be "relative" to another human's misfortune. The Black Death killed 25,000,000 people in the late medieval period. Inf...
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