Placing blame is an interesting sport. Has anyone thought about the
idea that we are dealing with the millennium generation with the
helicopter parents who have never let their children do anything that
they didn't sanction and who have told their children all of their
lives that they are the best child in the world and that they deserve
to be praised, rewarded, given a medal just because they participated
in some activity? They also interfere in their children's education
by telling their child's teacher that "Bobby is special and you just
have to learn how to stimulate him." -- or worse. I don't blame the
students, I blame the parents who have interfered with the learning
process by telling Bobby that he is the best and most important person
in the world and that he doesn't have to try to do anything, people
should just recognize his "specialness."
On 20 Nov 2007, at 11:21, Marc Carter wrote:
Oh, my. Apparently I was wrong; some of us *are* blaming the
students.
Well, I'm not. Social pressures are powerful. They just are. It's a
rare individual indeed who can consistently resist it, and I believe
that the reason that students *can* resist it -- when they can --
because of people like us who encourage it.
Blaming students for something over which they have little or no
control
doesn't change things. Working to change the situation can change
things.
But then, I'm a determinist. :) I'm much more rarely angry at
students
as a result.
m
Dr. Bob Wildblood
Lecturer in Psychology
Indiana University Kokomo
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signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
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to be."
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