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<DIV>In a message dated 11/2/2005 8:13:23 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
anonymous_animus@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; MARGIN-LEFT: 10px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>>>First, dedicated bright people who want to serve and<BR>help,
and second, dunces who want to get a degree but<BR>aren't smart enough to
finish anything but a education<BR>degree. The low averages make me thing
<BR>that the second group is by far the largest.<<<BR><BR>--I'm
suspicious of claims people "aren't smart<BR>enough". More likely they are
attempting to work<BR>within a system that doesn't match their mode
of<BR>information processing. Kinesthetic modelers trying to<BR>adapt to a
lecture format, for example. They may well<BR>want to serve, but have a
problem adapting to the way<BR>information is presented. Or, they may have
emotional<BR>problems that hold them back and make them more<BR>compassionate
toward students. There are many<BR>possibilities, other than calling them
"dunces". <BR><BR>One could assume from the above paragraph that the<BR>author
isn't smart ("a education degree") or one could<BR>guess the writer was
hurried, or has a processing<BR>style that doesn't match the written format. I
don't<BR>like that we've become so quick to judge as a culture,<BR>and so
uninterested in why brains do what they
do.<BR><BR>Michael</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>Michael,</DIV>
<DIV>When we look in a mirror, we think we see ourselves as we really are, but
in reality not only is it backwards, but it is two dimensional. My friend, Mike
Waller once wrote a poem about the rose-colored (or he would say rose-coloured)
glasses with which we view the world, ourselves included. </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 24pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>O May No Some Pow'r the Giftie gie
us...........</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>I think old Rabbie got it wrong,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>Our world would not last very
long</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>If we could see with steely eye</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>The self that's seen by
passers-by.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>The human brain's perhaps the
best</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>But in one way it fails the
test.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>In planning all our clever acts</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>We need a mind which faces
facts.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>Yet one such fact we deeply
fear:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>There ain't much point in being
here.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>As billions of us come and go,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>From whence and whither we don't
know,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>Our egos need stout walls and
roof</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>To shield them from this dreadful
truth.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>So, whilst outwardly there's no
sign,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>Inside ourselves we build a
shrine.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>There, raised upon a noble
plinth,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>Which stands within a labyrinth,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>There dwells the sacred sense of
self</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>So crucial to our mental health.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>These gods, who hold us all in
thrall,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>Demand delusions shared by all,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>Which serve to fool the human
race</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>That everyone's a special case.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>So when your mind to ego turns</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>Forget about old Rabbie Burns.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>As of yourself you take a view</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">Wear spectables of rosy
hue.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Lorraine
Rice<BR><BR>Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
<BR>---Andre Gide
<BR><BR>http://hometown.aol.com/euterpel66/myhomepage/poetry.html</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>