Do you think A genius is born or made in school?
Well, I think that is about 50/50. I think people's genetics play a large part in a person's intelligence, but I believe it also essential to learn and become educated. What do you think?
I'm not sure. I have a baby due in December so I've been reading about Child development and how to give it the edge
Well, that's great and congratulations! I definitely think it's essential to have an education, regardless of the level of intelligence.
Thank you, It's a crazy experience. I've been reading a lot of Talcott Parsons books on the subject.
I don't really know that author. What have you learned?
The author is a sociologist of the classical tradition. He seems to think everything we do or will be is born into us
I can't say I necessarily agree with that concept, but I'm certainly no expert. I do believe that there are some things we are certainly born with from birth.
Jean Delville
Jean Delville (19 January 1867, Leuven – 19 January 1953, Forest, Brussels) was a Belgian symbolist painter, author, poet, polemicist, teacher, and Theosophist. Delville was the leading exponent of the Belgian Idealist movement in art during the 1890s. He held, throughout his life, the belief that art should be the expression of a higher spiritual truth and that it should be based on the principle of Ideal, or spiritual Beauty. He executed a great number of paintings during his active career
is asked,
‘Do you think of yourself as a teacher who writes or a writer who teaches?’ He replies,
‘A writer who teaches: I don’t think that the two are incompatible. If I’m actively involved in the craft of writing, what I learn is useful in my teaching.
It was at King Edward’s that he found himself teaching Jonathan Coe, later to become an award winning novelist. Coe has commented, ‘I believe I was about seventeen years old when I