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Joe Gauld... on Education
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---I bet Joe is filled with sangfroid when ever he thinks of his 14 AP calculus prodigy going off into life as a failure.
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He sure as hell brings him up enough! That poor chap has unwittingly become part of the Hyde mythology just by having had the misfortune to run into Ol' Lucifer himself in a prior generation...
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I beg one of you, please, tell me this story of early promise betrayed.
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Oh, it's just that same old story of smarts vs. heart that he has told a million times over, several times a year at Bath, and which finds its way into at least 30-50% of his published material. I'm sure you have heard it before. Here's a snip from the previous page in this thread, from the 1992's "Character Development: A School's Primary Task":
--- Quote from: ""Joe Gauld"" ---This experience tells us that if we take care of character, academic achievement will follow. But I was long duped by the mafia's enshrinement of academic achievement. When I taught advanced-placement calculus 30 years ago, I gave my highest grade to a lazy and arrogant 14-year-old genius, while trying to convince him he was totally unprepared for life, and my lowest to a dedicated but discouraged kid, while trying to convince him his character and drive might someday make him the best engineer in class. The first did graduate from MIT with an "A" average at 18, but he has long been unemployed. The second became a top engineer.
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Ah, the tortoise and the hare. Well, there's the answer to your previous query: Joe modeled his educational philosophy on a fable.
Anonymous:
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given increasing Columbine-like tragedies,
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This from a guy that wants to shoot Horace Mann.
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live out the true meaning of our American creed.
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I thought Joe did not like democracy.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---I thought Joe did not like democracy.
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I think it depends on who he's talking to.
Isn't that kind of like how Hyde markets itself? Wasn't it 'Guesty' who unwittingly expounded along those lines... "It's not a therapeutic boarding school, but sometimes it is." ...or something of that ilk?
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---I bet Joe is filled with sangfroid when ever he thinks of his 14 AP calculus prodigy going off into life as a failure.
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He sure as hell brings him up enough! That poor chap has unwittingly become part of the Hyde mythology just by having had the misfortune to run into Ol' Lucifer himself in a prior generation...
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I beg one of you, please, tell me this story of early promise betrayed.
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Oh, it's just that same old story of smarts vs. heart that he has told a million times over, several times a year at Bath, and which finds its way into at least 30-50% of his published material. I'm sure you have heard it before. Here's a snip from the previous page in this thread, from the 1992's "Character Development: A School's Primary Task":
--- Quote from: ""Joe Gauld"" ---This experience tells us that if we take care of character, academic achievement will follow. But I was long duped by the mafia's enshrinement of academic achievement. When I taught advanced-placement calculus 30 years ago, I gave my highest grade to a lazy and arrogant 14-year-old genius, while trying to convince him he was totally unprepared for life, and my lowest to a dedicated but discouraged kid, while trying to convince him his character and drive might someday make him the best engineer in class. The first did graduate from MIT with an "A" average at 18, but he has long been unemployed. The second became a top engineer.
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Ah, the tortoise and the hare. Well, there's the answer to your previous query: Joe modeled his educational philosophy on a fable.
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OR perhaps the Fox and the Grapes: " I don't want to be no stinking intellectual. They smart people got no character"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes
Ursus:
Ah... found it. Here's what 'Guesty' actually said:
--- Quote from: ""Guesty"" ---Hyde is a school and a program. It's not a traditional prep school and dosen't claim to be and it's not a therapy school and doesn't claim to be. It's a little of both for kids and families who aren't too "off track".
I guarantee that the "Tri-State" whiney, baby-boomer attitude is behind many of the complaints you read about on fornits. Incluing Ass-Kow's passive aggressive rants and offers.
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