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The 10 Priorities (from Biggest Job)
Ursus:
The Biggest Job® We'll Ever Have
by Laura and Malcolm Gauld (Scribner, 2002)
Let's have a look at the reviews...
"From my fifty years of studying leadership, one single factor stands out: character. It is only character that counts in leadership and maturity. The Hyde Schools know how it's learned and developed. The Gauld's book incarnates with eloquent and moving language how Hyde achieves its miracles."
- Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, USC, Author of Managing the Dream[/list]
"This book is a treasure trove of wisdom and practical know-how for both parents and educators. This book comes from the heads, hearts, and guts of the people who have built one of America's great schools."
- Kevin Ryan, Ph.D. Professor and Director Emeritus, The Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character[/list]
"The Gaulds have taken the Hyde School's program for character-based education and written an accessible manual. When parents work on their own character, children are inspired to follow. Any parent eager to tackle the "biggest job" should consider this book required reading."
- Charlene C . Giannetti, coauthor of The Roller-Coaster Years, Parenting 911, and Cliques[/list][/list]
Who are these people? In reverse order:
Charlene C . Giannetti - formerly an editor and journalist for at least two business publications; of late a prolific writer of parent self-help books, generally paperback, often with co-author Margaret Sagarese. Her books include:
* How to Capitalize on the Video Revolution (publisher?, year?)
* Adoption: Parenthood Without Pregnancy (publisher?, year?)
* The Part-Time Solution: The New Strategy for Managing Your Career While Managing Motherhood (publisher?, year?)
* The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child Through the Maddening Yet Magical Middle School Years (Bantam Dell, Broadway Books, 1997)
* Parenting 911: How to Safeguard and Rescue Your 10 to 15-Year-Old From Substance Abuse, Sexual Encounters, Violence, Failure in School, Danger on the Internet, and Other Risky Situations (Broadway Books, 1999)
* Who Am I?...And Other Questions of Adopted Kids (Putnam Group, Price Stern Sloan, 1999)
* Cliques: 8 Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle (Broadway Books, 2001)
* The Patience of a Saint: How Faith Can Sustain You During the Tough Times in Parenting (Broadway Books, 2002)
* What Are You Doing In There? Balancing Your Need to Know with Your Adolescent's Need to Grow (Broadway Books, 2003)
* Good Parents, Tough Times: How Your Catholic Faith Provides Hope and Guidance in Times of Crisis (Loyola, 2005)
* Boy Crazy! Keeping Your Daughter's Feet on the Ground When Her Head Is in the Clouds (Broadway Books, 2006)See also: http://www.rollercoasteryears.com/bio.htm
Kevin Ryan - Ph.D. Professor and Director Emeritus, The Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character.CAEC, founded by Dr. Ryan, is housed by Boston University's School of Education. Gee, isn't that Joe Gauld's old stomping ground for his Master's?
CAEC's home page boasts the following slogan: "More than a decade of helping teachers, administrators, and parents build good character in today's students and tomorrow's leaders." Somehow that sounds vaguely familiar.
For the most part, this Institute appears to be above board, albeit with a decidedly conservative tenor. There are a few of Thomas Lickona's books in the Parent's Reading List, as well as a link for The Center For The 4th And 5th R's in the 'About Character Education' section. See HERE for previous discussion about Lickona et al in the Hyde threads.
Certainly there appear to be some standards applied to the scholarly pursuit. The Biggest Job did not make it to the CAEC Character Ed Reading List, but Joe's Character First, amazingly enough, did. I also recognize at least one, possibly two, books published by their faculty (found in the Publications List) who have quoted Joe in their work some years ago.[/list]
So there are some historical connections between Hyde School/the Gauld family and BU's Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character and/or Kevin Ryan. This wasn't exactly a review out of the blue.
Warren Bennis - Distinguished Professor of Business, USC, Author of Managing the Dream. A self-made man, my favorite, gotta love him. Warren Bennis actually warrants his own Wikipedia page.
I have to wonder about the Joe Gauld connection in this one as well, as apparently Bennis was kicking around MIT to BU to Harvard and back to MIT in the 50s and 60s. I am assuming that Bennis is two years older than Joe, and that they would have been pursuing their respective graduate studies around the same time. I am sure that Joe is quite familiar with Bennis; whether or not he knows him personally is the only question.
Moreover, in "the mid-1950s, [Bennis] had been the most visible part of the most controversial movement ever to hit the typically staid world of business organizations: so-called human relations, invented by Kurt Lewin, and notably (or notoriously) put into practice as "T-Groups" at the National Training Laboratories in Bethel, Maine. T-groups took many forms, but the basic idea was to bring managers together in small groups to resolve the conflicts and role strains that undercut effective working relationships. Originally developed to deal with racial tension in the workplace by surfacing the sources of conflict, T-groups, in their later manifestations at Esalen and elsewhere, led to frequent parodying of the process."** Any guess as to what these "T-groups" entailed?
Bennis, incidentally, is also a consultant for Werner Erhard and Associates, having taken the est Training sometime in the 70s. For those not familiar with that organization, see HERE for a short informative clip, spliced from the recent Robyn Symon documentary Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard (2006). Apparently Warren Bennis also appears in this film.[/list]
So...The reviewers can be summarized as follows: a business guru with a predilection for est, who may or may not be a personal friend of Joe Gauld; a "character education" visionary, who already contributes to the spreading of Joe's word; and a prolific producer of pulp self-help titles with a decidedly Catholic bent, aimed at despairing and desperate parents.
Does the sheen on this racket get any greasier??!!
** See HERE for more information on Warren Bennis, as well as the source for the above-noted quote.
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--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---Priority #10
What do our children most want from us? As parents, we can misread this. Our children may be telling us to leave them alone, or they may want us to "trust" them more and back off. We tell our parents that their children want us to inspire them. They may not even know they want this from us. However, their desire to be inspired may well be the strongest yearning they have, the greatest hope they have. We will not inspire them with our achievements. It will be done through sharing our struggles, reaching for our best, and modeling daily character.
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Hyde neither inspires nor influences; it fosters psychological dependency. From the moment of its founding, Hyde has greatly exaggerated and inflated the evils of the American family, youth culture, and educational system into a vast and interrelated culture that alienates youth from any deep sense of purpose in life. The promulgation of this myth justifies and encourages the creation of an alternative education. Unfortunately, Hyde offers no real alternative. Hyde's educational program lacks intellectual sophistication and doctrinal coherence; it does not possess the weight and power, historical, intellectual or organizational, to replace the existing educational system. Courage, integrity, leadership, curiosity, and concern amount to no more than a few scattered, insubstantial, and even unrelated principles that owe most of their apparent coherence of teaching and organization to the preconceptions and writings of the Gaulds themselves.
My main criticism of Hyde, however, is that it is a persecuting culture. The monolithic student, parent, and peer culture Hyde creates within its walls, in opposition to America's "dysfunctional" culture, stamps out diversity, heterogeneity, free speech, free thought, and indeed courage, integrity, leadership, curiosity, and concern.
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Nicely written. It is good to see a Hyde Alum that has gone on to a good Achievement Culture Liberal Arts School and learned to mold coherent thoughts into well written prose.
I think this deserves a response from the Hyde community. Got anyone that can write nearly that well?
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I was using steroids. As a writing aid I sometimes copy out a passage, and emend it until my idea is expressed. It helps me to learn and develop new styles. Where authorship is an issue I am careful to emend until not a trace of the original remains. I would probably deserve a yellow flag for plagiarism for submitting the above post under my own name.
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Hey a Hard rains is gonna Fall,
Robert Burns
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Hey a Hard rains is gonna Fall,
Robert Burns
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Wow, Dylan cribbed his name even. He's in good company: Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Virgil and Dante. Matthew, Luke, and John. Malcolm Gauld.
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Hey a Hard rains is gonna Fall,
Robert Burns
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Wow, Dylan cribbed his name even. He's in good company: Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Virgil and Dante. Matthew, Luke, and John. Malcolm Gauld.
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Well, at least he didn't call himself "Guest".
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Hey a Hard rains is gonna Fall,
Robert Burns
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Wow, Dylan cribbed his name even. He's in good company: Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Virgil and Dante. Matthew, Luke, and John. Malcolm Gauld.
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Well, at least he didn't call himself "Guest".
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Whoops! Paul, not Malcolm.
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