Precisely. Sociologists recognize that there is poverty and there is poverty.
A grad student may be very poor for a few years but that kind of poverty is quite different from the poverty endured by the millions who live, generation after generation in inner city or rural conditions that causes their worlds to be squeezed such that whatever potentials the children may have had simply never have a chance to be expressed and worse, as Brad points out, even the possibility of hope is squelched very early on with maltnutrition, disease, various kinds of physical and emotional abuse perpetrated by people who have no understanding that their behavior is even harmful. I find it unfathomable that anyone can dismiss these facts as irrelevant to the way humans develop overall, in any culture. Selma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Selma Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Ray Evans Harrell'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Keith Hudson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Harry Pollard'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Re: Over and under pop (was More hardwiring) > Selma Singer wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >>As you may or may not remember from messages I have posted in the > >>very distant past on this list, I worry less about our being > >>overwhelmed with stupid poor people and more about all the > >>geniuses that are lost because simply because they are born into > >>poverty and remain there. > [snip] > > THe ending of Antoine Saint-Exupery's _Wind Sand and Stars_ > goes something like this (from faulty memory). He is > describing a 3rd class carriage train trip in some > third-world country: > > It is not what we Westerners consider the squalor of > their living conditions that is most striking -- people > have lived in all sorts of conditions. The tragedy is > a little bit of Mozart murdered in each of these people. > > Annotatedly yours, > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
