At 01:37 PM Thursday 5/4/2006, Dave Land wrote:
On May 4, 2006, at 8:02 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 09:19 AM Thursday 5/4/2006, PAT MATHEWS wrote:
»»» Offer her the chance at physical activity and on-the-spot
decision making and you've played right into her weaknesses.«««
Bin there dun that Pat
If you don't mind an ignorant question, "Why?" (WRT the emphasized
stmt.) The "old-school traditional approach" would think that
getting her to do something as ordered and teaching her to make
proper decisions would be better than indulging her daydreams.
At this point, my skin began crawling. I have BEEN there and LIVED
this. You have no idea how soul-crushing is the implied criticism of
words like "indulging her daydreams". It insists that she's "just"
daydreaming, which is apparently of no value in the "real" world.
I suspect from what I've read here (both on and
in-between the lines) that a number of the
members of this list know exactly how
soul-crushing it is from having personally experienced it.
F**k That.
Freakin' slow-brains shoveled that shit down my throat for twelve years:
Only 12 years? I got the last couple while
working on a Ph.D. (IOW, the second time I was in
graduate school, after the Air Force.)
"David does not apply himself."
"David needs to keep his mind on his work."
"David is not living up to his potential."
Read the next message I wrote.
I understand why the plodders are terrified of
our constantly- shifting frames of reference:
mental shape-shifters just freak them
out, and we won't play by their linear, rigid, so-called "focused"
way of thinking and learning.
Gadzooks, you hit a nerve.
Now, I have to stop writing this email and get some work done for a
12:00 meeting.
I hope it is not significant in that context that
the time stamp on this message from you reads "1:37 PM" . . .
I'm Late!! I'm Late!! Maru
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been
added to our country and two words have been
added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that
is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)
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