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Joe Gauld... on Education
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---CEDU declared Bankruptcy, abruptly.....
Joe Gauld jumped into the fray of the aftermath, and submitted this piece.....
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Well he sure doesnt waste any oppurtunity to "x-pound"!
::bangin:: ::bangin:: ::bangin:: ::bangin:: ::bangin:: ::bangin:: ::bangin::
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Peter Pan"" ---
--- 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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
No more metamorphosis for me thanks
Anonymous:
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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.
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I love false dichotomies. Let me tell you right now, you have two choices: Believe everything that Joe Gauld says or have sex with your mother, kill your father and then poke your eyes out with knitting needles.(talk about an off track kid)
Do what I say right now or western culture will disintegrate. It was a joke 30 years ago, it is still a joke although not as funny now.
Surfer Mouse:
"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."
“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.”
"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."
"Fortunately, therapeutic schools are slowly learning to focus on parental and family growth to succeed with students."
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By any accepted definition what Joe Gauld and the Hyde School program engage in is called family therapy. By using the label of “Educator” Joe Gauld presents his views and approach as unique and important contributions to the field of education, and feels he can operate completely free from the professional standards, accepted therapeutic approaches, and generally accepted views of the field of Family Therapy and the American Psychological Association. If he were to be practicing as a “Family Therapist” and a part of that field, his approach and views would have to compete in the larger market place of therapeutic approaches and be subject to professional peer comment and evaluation and review. I seriously doubt if he would be able to claim such high standing under those circumstances as he tries to present as an “Educator”. By operating under the label of “Educator” he conveniently avoids accountability for his actions in accordance to accepted professional and ethical standards for the American Psychological Association. He is able to avoid having complaints filed against him to the state licensing board by current and former “clients”. You would not want you pet’s veterinarian act as your child’s primary care physician and your “Educator” should not act as your family therapist. To say "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." does not make it a fact or truth just because it comes from the mouth of Joe Gauld. Is there specific research Joe Gauld cites to back up this view? What data does he cite? What alternative views or additional factors may be contributing to these difficulties? Joe Gauld does not need to be bothered with details like that. He has his experience of “ 53 years as a teacher”. That’s all the credentials he needs in order for people to take his views taken as literal truth, not to be questioned. Even the most fervent religious preachers lay claim to the authority of the Bible or state that God has spoken to them in divine revelation! In Joe Gauld’s world, HE is divine revelation. He is God. And as we all know that questioning God’s word is blasphemy, punishable by trial before the “Spanish Inquisition” or excommunication. Joe Gauld uses the bully pulpit of Hyde School as his platform to prostalitize his views as a self proclaimed expert on every conceivable subject from adolescent development, family values, and the state of moral decay in the United States. We should be thankful that in spite of his megalomaniacal ambitions he only put out a couple of books and a never ending stream of newspaper articles, editorials and such. He could have ended up as a Family Therapist with a TV show . . . like Dr. Phil.
::drummer::
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Surfer Mouse"" ---You would not want you pet’s veterinarian act as your child’s primary care physician...
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Funny you should say that... as, if I am not mistaken, Veterinary Medicine is precisely the field in which the school physician in the 1970s received his degree in. Originally. I think he then took some "refresher courses" to hone his qualifications a bit more.
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