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off-topic comments should not be taken as gospel (Score:2)
This just makes me angry and strengthens my resolve to educate my children myself.
Um, I'd guess that you were in public school more than a couple of years ago - which means that it was at the
Re:off-topic comments should not be taken as gospe (Score:2)
My point is that what was presented to me was not presented as new research which had not yet been confirmed, but as fact that could now be taken for granted. The real point behind that is to get at the fact that I was encouraged to simply accept what I was told rather than to learn to evaluate new ideas in a rational spirit of inquiry. Nobody said, "There's some new evidence that listening to Mozart might have a positive effect." What was said was, "They've discovered that listening to Mozart stimulates
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re: The Mozart effect: possibly not real (Score:1)
b) My kids are rather bright (and not saying this because I'm their father and have to, but because other people say so, too). The never listend to Mozart. In fact they listend to Beastie Boys, Coldcut, German/Austrian HipHop and other stuff that's not targett
Re: The Mozart effect: possibly not real (Score:2)
a) Public schools sure vary a lot from country to country (and in the U.S., state to state and county to county). Education-wise, the main point of this journal entry is that children need to be taught to critically evaluate new ideas presented to them, and that the failure of my own excellent local schools to do so in myself reinforces my previously made decision to homeschool my children.
b) You're absolutely right. I was once committed to starting my independent life without a television at all, but t
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Reading to your kids (Score:2)
Great. My 16 year old son, Jordan, still enjoys having me read to him. That started when he was a toddler - making up a bed-time story every night for a couple of years (he would choose the topic and I'd then have to make up the story - "The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Light Bulb"), which turned into reading from kids books (Richard Scary was a favourite), then reading "regular" books (he heard "The Hobb
Re:Reading to your kids (Score:2)
He is never to be seen these days without a book available, in case there are a few moments that would otherwise be "wasted" time
That's the way to be. :)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Hm (Score:2)
Re:Hm (Score:2)
I don't trust Wikipedia, per se. Wikipedia just opens up the process to review by myriads of sources, making it more likely that if some item is controversial or uncertain that controversy or uncertainty will be reflected. Ultimately, Wikipedia opens up the process of source checking; hard-to-believe facts will tend to be challenged and sourced if there is a source (or removed if not).
Imagine the whole Rather memo fiasco concentrated and put on one website, with each viewer of the website having equal p
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers