President's Blog - February 2013 - Helping Others Reach Their Potential
January 25, 2013
Most of us have visited a pre-school or kindergarten and noticed how much fun the children are having playing, moving around, laughing, and learning. Their enthusiasm seems contagious, and some may even marvel at the teacher's ability to direct the students' energy and movement towards the learning and development activities. But many of us also notice that when we visit students in the sixth or eighth grades, something has changed. The students seem to have become more sluggish, and there is less laughter and enthusiasm. These differences seem to become more pronounced as students enter high school. The noticeable transitions from excited interest toward apathy probably are related, in some part, to hormones and adolescent development, but does it have to be so? Some of the transitions in students' outward attitude towards school, learning activities, and the acquiring of cognitive skills brings back memories of Jonathan Kozol's observations of his teaching experience that he discussed in "Death at an Early Age."
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