Inspiration Bot Posted May 21, 2021 Share #1 Posted May 21, 2021 "We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted May 21, 2021 Share #2 Posted May 21, 2021 4 hours ago, Inspiration Bot said: "We are all gifted. That is our inheritance." View the full article Perhaps. But what we do with our gifts determines our worth. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted May 21, 2021 Share #3 Posted May 21, 2021 Does Ethyl Waters live in New Jersey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted May 21, 2021 Share #4 Posted May 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said: Perhaps. But what we do with our gifts determines our usefulness. I think our worth was preordained by the image we reflect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted May 21, 2021 Share #5 Posted May 21, 2021 I think Comicbot has us covered here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted May 22, 2021 Share #6 Posted May 22, 2021 On 5/21/2021 at 6:13 AM, maddmaxx said: Does Ethyl Waters live in New Jersey? England! Roger’s mother. Either that or California, Alice’s mother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted May 22, 2021 Share #7 Posted May 22, 2021 46 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said: England! Roger’s mother. Either that or California, Alice’s mother. It seemed to fit better with the Jersey environment. Just sayn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted May 22, 2021 Share #8 Posted May 22, 2021 On 5/21/2021 at 1:00 AM, Inspiration Bot said: "We are all gifted. That is our inheritance." View the full article Unfortunately, many don't have parents that help them develop their gifts or else their families are in difficult situations. When we had Parent Night in September each year at the high school, I often had to get senior class volunteers to photocopy extra info sheets for the overflowing crowd of parents in my Honors Chemistry and Physics classes. Meanwhile, the teachers of low-level kids often spent the whole evening sitting in the teacher's office sipping coffee or soft drinks because no parents had bothered to show up. It's real clear why a lot of kids become "gifted" and a lot don't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted May 22, 2021 Share #9 Posted May 22, 2021 12 minutes ago, MickinMD said: Unfortunately, many don't have parents that help them develop their gifts or else their families are in difficult situations. When we had Parent Night in September each year at the high school, I often had to get senior class volunteers to photocopy extra info sheets for the overflowing crowd of parents in my Honors Chemistry and Physics classes. Meanwhile, the teachers of low-level kids often spent the whole evening sitting in the teacher's office sipping coffee or soft drinks because no parents had bothered to show up. It's real clear why a lot of kids become "gifted" and a lot don't! You might be interested in the pop science book "Outliers" by Gladwell. It makes some interesting arguments - some convincing, some less so - about what often goes into "gifted" students (or even musicians, athletes, etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted May 23, 2021 Share #10 Posted May 23, 2021 11 hours ago, MickinMD said: Meanwhile, the teachers of low-level kids often spent the whole evening sitting in the teacher's office sipping coffee or soft drinks because no parents had bothered to show up. At one place I worked the company had a career day and invited local high schools to the plant to learn about the jobs/professions/careers of the people who worked there. I was assigned to talk to a group of high school kids from the 'troubled' high school about engineering. So, they filed into the conference room and slumped into their seats displaying every sort of uninterested boredom known to mankind. I started my pitch anyway, and said 'If you're interested in engineering you'll need to spend some time doing math, like the math classes you're taking now. In fact, you'll need to study enough to get good at it to do your job." Then the teacher or chaperone said to me, out loud, in front of the kids "You're not going to get any interest in math from this crowd." I was floored. I didn't say anything for a few seconds, but then I thought "Screw you, buddy. I'm going to try anyway." So I turned back to the kids, ignored the teacher, and asked "Who likes music?" They just looked at me. So I said "Really, who likes music?" and one by one they raised their hands. Then I asked "How would you like a job where you could listen to music all day long, and get paid for it too?" They liked that idea and raised their hands right away. I said "Well, if that's what you want to do, then you could become a radio station engineer. You work at the radio station and keep the equipment running but you get to listen to the music all the time you're working. But, if you think you'd like that job you're going to have to study some math." I could see that deflated some of their excitement a bit. I gave a few more 'backwards examples' where I started with something I thought would appeal to the kids and then walked it back into some sort of engineering job, and tied that into having to study math. When the time was up and the kids filed out, they didn't look much less sullen than when they walked in. I don't know if I reached any of the kids or not. I never heard back about it, but I expected I probably wouldn't anyway. In the end, though, I guess the opportunity to get them to think a little differently about applying what they were learning - and to think to think a little differently about themselves - was enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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