It’s Pollyanna-like but, more than that, reflective of insecurity about the human capacity for accomplishment to compulsively teach children, “Just want it, and you can make it happen.” Human beings don’t operate by wishes, and great things are never accomplished by wishes and dreams alone. Children should not be misled into thinking that they do. Great things happen when people actively develop and apply their capacities for reasoning and thinking; persistently and intelligently put those capacities into action plans, followed up in practice; and fueled, all the while, by a sense that IF something is worthwhile enough to you and IF you come up with a realistic and accurate way of doing something, THEN you can indeed accomplish a great deal. Way more than you ever anticipated, in fact...
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:20:09 +0000
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