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Strategies & Market Trends : Heinz Blasnik- Views You Can Use

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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (2847)6/29/2003 7:52:10 PM
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<i guess the spelling bee has become something of a national mania for hyperactive parents thanks to ESPN. i left the theater thinking it would be better to have ESPN coverage of a kiddie chess tournament--chess is much better as it's international and you can do it your whole life. also a bit more intellectually compelling than spelling words--though Kasparov calls it "mental torture". likewise, one of the parents saw the spelling bee and called it "child abuse".>

""Some day schools will teach about the dynamics of thought, rather than stuffing supposedly relevant thoughts in. It is much more important to 'see' your thinking for what it is, than 'what' you think."" -Zen Master

I recently ran into some type of Neuro-PHD type that was telling me that the whole concept of learning spelling through all these rules and such is simply a waste of space and thinking time. He thinks in 15 years it'll all be rote.

DAK
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