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Blog your way to happiness - web - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 16 Jul 08 - Cached

Researchers in the US have concluded that blogging also makes bloggers better thinkers. US neurologists Fernette and Brock Eide conducted a survey of the blogosphere and posted their results on their own site. The research began with the proposition that our mental activities actually cause changes in the structures of our brains -not only what we think, but how we think as well.
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anonymous on 16 Jul 08

An interesting article about some of the benefits of blogging.

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Helicopter parents not doing enough to let children fail - 14 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 03 Apr 10 - Cached

children who were becoming less resilient and unable to cope with failure
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That is when we stopped our proper work in the character formation in young people. If we are serious about building resilience, we have to let them fail. It is only through our failings in the learning process that we learn anything
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someone invented the concept of self-esteem,'' Dr Kefford said. ''In some ways it has been the most damaging educational concept that has ever been conceived.
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Generation Y or the ''millennials'' (born between 1982 and 1999) are entering the workforce overconfident and with a sense of entitlement
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Feeling special often means the expectation of special treatment
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Political Debate In Australia - 4 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 26 Jul 11 - No Cached

In 2006 I suggested that it might be time to actually define ''Education'', something omitted in the draft bill, and to explore its role in personal and community life, but this was rejected as too ambitious.
- Tony Searl on 26 Jul 11
  
  yep, what is education? Put it in the too hard basket. Keep doing what we've always done?
  
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Tony Searl on 26 Jul 11

This is by far the best-educated cohort in our history - on paper, anyway - but apparently lacking in courage, judgment, capacity to analyse or even simple curiosity, except about immediate personal needs.

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