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The 10 Priorities (from Biggest Job)
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---They nurtured him, but there was no overt pressure from them.
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Nurturing, yet no overt pressure. What a unique concept (to Hyde). I can't imagine a more pressure-filled, moral judgment-laden place than Hyde. And that's what kids who come out of there are initially like: under a lot of pressure, laden with moral judgments, whether or not they are deemed a "success" by Hyde standards.
One tends to internalize a lot of their outlook and mindset, at least for a while, whether one likes it or not...
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---They nurtured him, but there was no overt pressure from them.
--- End quote ---
Nurturing, yet no overt pressure. What a unique concept (to Hyde). I can't imagine a more pressure-filled, moral judgment-laden place than Hyde. And that's what kids who come out of there are initially like: under a lot of pressure, laden with moral judgments, whether or not they are deemed a "success" by Hyde standards.
One tends to internalize a lot of their outlook and mindset, at least for a while, whether one likes it or not...
--- End quote ---
To say nothing of the lack of a solid educational component. You can plant a daisy in the desert and expect it to grow: it won't.
Back in the seventies I was lucky to have college recommendations from Legg (Harvard), Warren (Yale), and Hawley (Columbia). Hyde still had some academic clout then. But those fellows have been replaced by "mentors" such as Larry Dubinsky, who as I recall was the class idiot. I don't imagine Hyde students succeed or even make it into competitive academic programs anymore.
Not that the efforts of Legg, Warren, and Hawley had adequately prepared me for college. By no means. I was intellectually at sea and had to work, literally, sixteen hours a day to make up for the deficit. I don't attribute my success to Hyde's motivational exercises but to my own knowledge of the consequences of failure.
Ed Legg:
--- Quote ---Not that the efforts of Legg, Warren, and Hawley
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Now you know how interested I was in you as a student. I take great umbrage at your remark. Of course I prepared y'all. I taught you haw to work like a dog and Hyde gave you the character to do it.
Peace and Love
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Back in the seventies I was lucky to have college recommendations from Legg (Harvard), Warren (Yale), and Hawley (Columbia). Hyde still had some academic clout then. But those fellows have been replaced by "mentors" such as Larry Dubinsky, who as I recall was the class idiot. I don't imagine Hyde students succeed or even make it into competitive academic programs anymore.
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You bring up an interesting point. Make that plural. First, the importance of the "old boy network" that Hyde relied on to accomplish what it did not do as far as providing an adequate education.
Second, that this generation of educators relied on their own education and upbringing as a resource for what little academic value that managed to trickle through the ideological pounding. Had this generation been brought up on a "Hyde education" themselves, they would have had far less to offer.
Since we are now dealing with a subsequent generation of "Hyde educators," many of which rely on a "Hyde education" as their resource, what trickles through is all that more diluted in substance and deficient in standards.
Ursus:
Geez Louise... For some time now, I have noticed that the wording in these "Priorities" is not exactly what one might deem "professional caliber." I should talk, right? Well, I'm not the one who has the website. You would think that with all those millions they rake in from their marks, not to mention the financial acumen of their so-called benefactor Flexible-Telling, that they could afford an editor... "Often, success and failure are one in the same-the lessons learned in both are important." Yikes! I do believe they meant to say "one and the same," a common enough saying, not to mention that the sentence does not make any sense otherwise. But... I guess they consider this a prime example of attitude over aptitude, right? Ha! I consider this a prime example of the shoddy workmanship and mediocre educational standards that Hyde tries to pass off as "meaningful."
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Priority #5
Value Success And Failure
As a society, we do not place much value on failure. Our generation, in particular, has a hard time letting its children struggle. Often, success and failure are one in the same-the lessons learned in both are important. When we let our children fail, we show them that we believe they are capable of learning what is necessary. We also need to share more of our struggles and failures with them. Think about something you might have perceived as a failure early in your life that later became an important lesson for you. Our children need those same moments of learning.
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