Consequences

Human development from its earliest stages consists in an ongoing interaction with the environment.  Infants quickly learn the lesson of cause and effect. Controlling the environment to secure desired results is a measure of successful adaptation.  Indeed, this grounding in reality forms the basis of future sanity and mental health.  For what is sanity other than the successful […]

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The Myth Of Ability:  Nurturing Mathematical Talent In Every Child.  John MIghton, Anansi Press, Toronto:  2003.  209 pages.

Among the most unpopular subjects for boys in the Ontario curriculum are French and Mathematics.  French,  because many boys feel that there is little use putting effort into something that they feel they will never use.  It isn’t an issue of difficulty but rather one of perceived relevance.  Few boys have any fear of French, they just do not like […]

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