Everyone's Choices: Wisdom, Respect, Success and HappinessiUniverse, 2005 - 192 pages Choices contains three themes; The first: Earth can be a Paradise if we sculpt it to be; it can be Perdition if we allow it to be. The second is that we are our own self-authors and we can author a world Paradise. The third statement: Of course we are at peace, do you think we are stupid? Choices ably connects the three dots! Enjoy discovering a path to world peace, easing bigotry and fixing education. "Choices is sound, easy to follow, inventive, exciting and well reasoned." "Robinson has used his practical experience and a lifetime of research to present and deliver a comprehensive series of logical conclusions. In Choices, he looks at the human condition not [only] from a new point of view, but from the mind of a man who has lived it." |
Contents
Global Quality of Life is a DoItOurselves Project | 81 |
A list of Useful SelfEvident Statements | 129 |
Organizing for Success Oriented Schools | 133 |
Tethers of EducationTailoring | 141 |
Eight Reasons to Reconsider Curve Marking | 151 |
Some Counseling Tethers | 157 |
Involved Fables | 161 |
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A-B-C Marking accept adult allow answer appeal to emotion Appendix at-risk young attitudes attributes autothenics become behavior believe bell curve biased bigotry bureaucracy Chapter Three child clone cognitive committee condition counselor cultural Daniel Goleman Darlene decision-making decisions demeanor Demon Haunted World Edwin Robinson emotion Emotional Intelligence entities environment essential concepts evaluation exhibit experience Fallible global grade gullibility habits happiness humanity hunter-gatherer ideation immature impulses individual intellectual intelligence intrinsic motivation Jedediah Purdy Joel Stein learning logic macho mastery mental maturity mind-set outcome parents Peggy philosophy political potential problem-solving problems prosper Race X rational realistic responses result risk self-esteem self-evident truths self-sculpting social social contract solve someone structured classrooms subliminal Success Oriented Schools synergy tantrum teacher teaching tethers things tion unstructured wholesome Wilson Bryan Key Wisdom and Solution young person
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Page xii - Autobiography, sadly remarked that "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.