Klarinet Archive - Posting 000798.txt from 2001/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Giving up. or not
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:07:13 -0500

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:59:52 -0800, ewijon@-----.net said:

> At 12:26 PM 11/29/01 +0000, you wrote:

> > > In order to acquire the skills necessary to create, throughout
> > > one's adult life, goals that one will be happy to work towards, it
> > > is essential to have had repeated experiences of doing that
> > > successfully as a child, and quite poisonous to have had the
> > > experience of chronically failing to.
> > >
> > > David Deutsch
> >
> > So, if you think this is true, and I suggest that it is, you have to
> > be careful about getting kids to go on doing something they don't
> > want to do.
>
> Or careful not to teach them that's it's OK to quit when something
> isn't instantly successful....

But certainly careful not to teach them that the arbiter of what is and
isn't OK to want to do with their spare time, *isn't them*.

Tony
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