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To: Solon who wrote (41944)	9/21/2013 3:41:17 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Recommended By Solon Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Tips for Slow Learners Slow learners are often confused with students in need of special education or reluctant learners who are non-cooperative. A student who fails to excel in some classes or in some subjects does not imply that he or she is a slow learner. However, resorting to some of the teaching aids available to special education students may enhance interest of slow learners and help them get involved in the learning process. Actually slow learners are normal students who are simply not interested in studying under traditionally acceptable system of education. And several students in a class fall under this category, but most parents or guardians prefer to remain in denial mode. Some traits of slow learners include: "I's not for falling for solons trikz... me to smartt." • Emotional, sensitive and innocent • Prefer simpler tasks and get stressed under complex circumstances • They have a short attention span and lose concentration very quickly • Prefer to work at their own pace and not under time constraints • They are not interested in cramming skills which are purely academic in nature Research has further emphasized that the hectic schedule of parents results in the following persistent oversights which have direct implications on the overall learning attitude of the child. These oversights include failure to discuss day to day events with their children, monitoring nutrition and food habits from breakfast to super, participation in extra-curricular activities, sleeping schedule, and their emotional transition with developmental changes in their hormonal metabolism and general health. Slow-learners are not averse to learning, and have no limitations for learning, but in fact have their own psychology for learning. Hence the challenge for the parents or guardians or teachers is to understand the student’s areas of interests and develop a teaching plan to cover syllabus in a given time frame. Research in this field has contributed to the development of several innovative strategies to deal with such slow learning students to learn and enhance memory like: • Involve students with a practical model or case study of short time span and relaxed environment so that they can visualize or feel the situation • Proceed in steps once the students are comfortable and involved in looking for solutions • Involve them in activities discrete from routine home chorus like sports and excursions to motivate such students to learn without cramming monotonous textbooks • Provide a variety of activities for learning such as painting a picture of a reading assignment • Provide them ample opportunity for success Fortunately nowadays resources are available in libraries as well as online to develop learning habits to create interest for slow learners. tutorfi.com

To: Solon who wrote (41944)	9/21/2013 4:20:34 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Only stupid immoral atheists would redefine duty as a value and claim there are no duties because of it. There are all sorts of duties that Humans have that have nothing to do with their personal values. Try not paying your taxes or leaving a dog in a hot car with the widows rolled up. We also have moral duties to other Human beings and to God that exist even if atheists want to pretend otherwise. Of course you are free to spout whatever nonsense you want to until you act out one of your psychopathic fantasies. Then we will slap your ass in jail you immoral little TWERP.

To: Solon who wrote (41944)	9/22/2013 12:56:41 PM
From: GPS Info	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

So when I say that duty is a value, I mean that someone has chosen to allow a value to be so binding upon ones conscience as to compel voluntary obedience to a course of action--which course, however, is freely chosen as a course of self interest. E.O. Wilson talks about choices made for the self versus the group. This seems to be an eternal conflict within us, and for me, this often gives rise to concepts of good and evil. When I think of duties or moralities I want to apply these concepts to the modern world AND to a tribal world of 10,000 BC. So, a small tribe can be generationally self-sustaining if it's sufficiently cohesive and large enough. Degrading the cohesiveness may well reduce the survivability of the tribe, and maintaining or improving the cohesiveness may improve the odds of survival into the next generation. Importantly, cohesiveness (or size) does not guarantee survival. In these tribal systems an individual is not a self-sustaining unit in that he can not reproduce by himself. So, he can go off to be a tribe of one, but when he dies, his tribe dies as well. Whatever survival skills he learned are ultimately destroyed. If a value destroys a tribal unit, then I consider that to be a bad value. Dan Dennett talks about dangerous memes which can be sterilizing to groups which accept them, for example the Shakers. I believe that the idea of individual selfishness can be catastrophic to a small tribe, however it can survive for that individual living in our current civilization because there is no (large-scale) threat to society's ability to be self-sustaining. As more and more individuals decide to become more selfish, the outcome seems to be a lower fertility rate for that society. In these tribal systems there must be instincts to protect and nurture the group and maintain cohesion. Maternal instincts and the hunting traits of males in groups to bring down larger game are only two examples. We can call a father's concern and support for his children a "duty" to his children or a moral necessity because without it, the probability of survival for those children is likely to decrease, possibly leading to destruction of the tribe and the loss of its culture. It can be said that man who walks out on his wife and kids has shirked his duty or is immoral. There may be good reasons why he left, but at least in the tribal system, this would not be "good" in a general sense. I will posit that those values which improve the long-term survival of the group can be considered good values, and those which degrade the survival of the group as bad values. Ayn Rand seems to focus on the choices for the individual. I usually think these idea of selfishness might work for a small subset of the society, but not for the majority, and definitely not for a small tribal system.