Psychology

» pink101 - Not A Professional Educator

In response to Long Term & Short Term Goals posted by Migisi:
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Since I'm not a professional educator, I'm not qualified to create a curriculum for teaching grade school children the habit of long term goal setting coupled with appropriate plans.
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But, there are people who can develop such educational programs.
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My point isn't to turn a first grade child's dreams into some long term goal. Instead, it is to teach them the habit of setting goals--to show them how long term plans work.
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Once a person has established a long term goal, all subsequent choices are already made in the light of the plan that accompanies the goal.
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Of course, such a curriculum would not fit in with the elitists who do not work for a living. Why don't they work? Because they have money that works for them. Their children are taught to be shrewd and how to play power games. Of course they learn the necessities of reading, writing, and arithmetic. But, all they need to do is to learn how to have some financial counselor handle their investments while they spend their summers in St. Morittz and their winters in Tahiti.
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-- posted by pink101