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Joe Gauld... on Education
Ursus:
Sorry, Surfer Mouse, but here's another one... :lol:
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http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2005/ ... 5.h24.html
Education Week
Vol. 24, Issue 21, Page 42
Published: February 2, 2005
LETTER
Cheating Denies Students the 'Power of Integrity'
To the Editor:
I appreciate Joan F. Goodman's deeply thoughtful Commentary, "How Bad Is Cheating?" (Jan. 5, 2005). But it is painful to observe a dedicated teacher struggling to teach the very basics of character to a supposedly educated society.
Yes, cheating is unfair to others, but unless the underlying attitude is effectively addressed, my 53 years as a teacher says it will seriously cripple what the cheater could and should accomplish in life.
Even ancients like Heraclitus understood that “character is destiny.” And character development begins with a deep appreciation of the power of integrity, which any form of cheating or lying denies.
Without intervention, our ego inevitably seeks shortcuts to success like cheating. But at a deeper level within ourselves, our conscience knows the true path of our destiny, which our pursuit of the truth and desire to “do the right thing” empowers us to follow, enabling us to transcend our lesser ego desires in the process.
While everyday golfers may sometimes cheat, the great ones never do. Why? Because they know cheating would short-circuit their most powerful energies of integrity and conscience, and under pressure, they would never make that tournament-winning putt when they needed to.
It is tragic that we are obviously failing to teach the majority of American students this most critical lesson about life.
Joseph W. Gauld
Founder of Hyde Schools
The Hyde Foundation
Bath, Maine
Surfer Mouse:
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:10 am
"Oh, I'll take the Comic Books!"
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Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:12 am
Sorry, Surfer Mouse, but here's another one...
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This is very concerning.
I suppose next you will say that its not a problem ...
that you can stop any time you want, but that you just
don't feel like stopping right now?
:scared:
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Surfer Mouse"" ---Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:10 am
"Oh, I'll take the Comic Books!"
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Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:12 am
Sorry, Surfer Mouse, but here's another one...
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This is very concerning.
I suppose next you will say that its not a problem ...
that you can stop any time you want, but that you just
don't feel like stopping right now?
:scared:
--- End quote ---
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
The two minute interval stemmed from my having the second post prepped and ready to go, and deciding at the last minute to respond to your earlier comment.
The excessive volume of Joe Gauld's take on education stems from my starting this thread to post, and leave room to folks to comment on, excessive volumes of Joe Gauld's take on education. At least such as I have been able to find recently. :lol:
And, mmm... I don't feel like stopping just yet! :wink:
Ursus:
In February of 2005, CEDU/Rocky Mountain Academy closed.
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?t=8236
http://www.strugglingteens.com/news/ced ... 50210.html
In March of 2005, CEDU declared Bankruptcy, abruptly.
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewforum.php?f=11
http://www.strugglingteens.com/news/let ... index.html
Joe Gauld jumped into the fray of the aftermath, and submitted this piece to Lon Woodbury's StrugglingTeens site (Lon, incidentally, got his start in the business at RMA).
Would that the title of this piece were true, or even accurately reflective of Gauld's mindset. I'm beginning to think that one of the reasons Gauld appears to align himself more with kids than their parents is that he considers many of the parental generation to be of those "sloppy hippy progressive ilk," and that there is still hope that he can mold the younger set into fine upstanding Republicans! Ha Ha!
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http://www.strugglingteens.com/news/let ... 50415.html
Posted April 15, 2005
Fix Parents, Not Kids
Joseph W. Gauld
Founder of Hyde Schools,
Bath, ME 04530
207-443-7381
jgauld@hyde.edu
The difficulties of the therapeutic school industry, highlighted by the bankruptcy of Browne Schools Inc., were inevitable.
Simply put, therapeutic schools were designed to "fix" the off-track kid. After founding four character-based schools, I've learned the real solution is to "fix" the families.
The Browne Schools were essentially closed by disgruntled parents who had expected educators to transform their kids without changing the kids' parents and families. This amazing naiveté reflects a national attitude, and a society oblivious to the tragic decline in the overall quality of American childrearing.
Over my 53 years as a teacher, I've seen parents' expectations for their children's futures steadily rise, but the quality of their preparation of children to realize such higher expectations steadily decline.
Once today's kids hit adolescence, many experience the tension caused by this wide gap between expectation and preparation. This leads them to escape the tension through drugs, sex, acting out and other off-track behaviors. The present rehabilitation focus on kids and not families simply encourages kids to remain child-like, feeding a Peter Pan syndrome.
Character development is the foundation for preparing kids to realize high expectations in life. Character is primarily taught by parents-and primarily by their example. Parents today must come to realize the vital character foundation they provide children simply by how they live.
Adolescence is the ultimate challenge to help teenagers realize the deeper intellectual, emotional and spiritual potentials they need to meet high expectations and live an exceptional life. The metaphor for human adolescence is nature forcing the caterpillar to develop strong enough wings to break out of its cocoon-which in turn enables it to fly as a butterfly.
The American family today is a slowly weakening cocoon.
American parents today often value harmonious family relationships above challenging their teenagers' best.
At our Hyde Schools, in which our primary focus is developing character for life, we require parents to participate in a rigorous program that addresses parental growth and family issues on a regular basis. Our formula is simple; if we succeed with parents, we know we will eventually succeed with their kids.
Fortunately, therapeutic schools are slowly learning to focus on parental and family growth to succeed with students. So what can our society learn from their difficulties? What about the vast number of off-track students in America who simply can't afford therapeutic schools?
The problem-and its solution-lies in strengthening their parents and families.
We Americans have a choice. We can continue to ignore the decline in American childrearing, and simply tolerate the millions of high school drop outs and other off-track kids. Or we can find the courage to revolutionize American education by helping parents become its primary teachers and the home its primary classroom, and thus offer every child a real opportunity to realize one's high expectations in life.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---Adolescence is the ultimate challenge to help teenagers realize the deeper intellectual, emotional and spiritual potentials they need to meet high expectations and live an exceptional life. The metaphor for human adolescence is nature forcing the caterpillar to develop strong enough wings to break out of its cocoon-which in turn enables it to fly as a butterfly.
The American family today is a slowly weakening cocoon.
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ahhh shit...
not the larval metamorphasis, again... ::stab::
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