"Brand, Joel C." wrote: > I sat in a meeting of the St. Louis Park's 'Children's First' initiative > several years ago, and listened as Dr. Benson told the audience that if > there were ANY "nay sayers" the program would fail. > Wow, what a concept. We have this program for you, but if anyone speaks in > the negative about it, it will fail. > So any failure could certainly not be attributed to the Search Institute, > but to people like me who dare to challenge the findings. > > You'll have to excuse me now, I have a therapy appointment. The failure of > society is a heavy burden.
Ah yes, the old "you can't blame us" trapdoor. It should be obvious that a program for improving the schools will have to negativity tolerant. Not having heard of these people I did a literature search and found that although they have published a number of books and reports, I can't find any major work in a peer reviewed journal. People should keep in mind what they have is a theory, which doesn't appear to be validated by experimental research. I don't have a theory, I have a lot of proposals that need to be tested. Michael Atherton Prospect Park m _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
