Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (239324)	12/4/2013 8:00:39 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541956

What I keep trying to explain: we don't understand the mind, we don't understand intelligence and we don't understand our ignorance. So what exactly would we be standardizing? <Nearly every standardized test given to students today is heavily verbal and mathematical. Students who have the high spatial and lower math/verbal profile are therefore missed in nearly every school test and their talent likely goes missed, and thus under-developed. What’s more, spatially-talented people are often less verbally fluent, and unlikely to be very vocal. Finally, teachers are unlikely to have a high spatial profile themselves (and typically have the inverted profile of high verbal and lower math/spatial), and although they probably do not intend to, they’re more likely to miss seeing talent in students who are not very much like themselves.

To: bentway who wrote (239324)	12/4/2013 8:21:21 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541956

Over the last 20 years I have watch hundreds of "housewives" become real estate agents, title officers and mortgage loan officers. The vast majority have no college. They have mastered those jobs so well, they have driven the men out. My office dominates the market and sells about 60% of the property. And the women dominate my office. I watched the women in my office became a tour de force. They are so competent and master the most complicated stuff you can imagine. Yesterday I was looking at our staff meeting with 9 women and 2 guys. All of the women make around 150 K a year. Effortlessly. Today we were learning how to transfer files to skyscape. They barely needed to listen they had it down already. Every one of these women could have obtained PHD, but more interesting is they have only recently discovered their talent themselves. The were timid and unsure of themselves in the beginning. You should see them now. Any of them could kick our asses-lol. I was talking to all of them today (as the old fatherly guy) and telling them how happy and proud I was to watch them mature to the degree they had. They were grateful and agreed with how much their lives have changed since "succeeding at such a complicated job and to such a degree. From $10 an hour to $100 an hour. One woman who really started from behind (but was determined and now pretty much runs the office) and was in a totally subservient (and somewhat abusive)relationship told me how she now rules the roost and her husband often makes dinner. Something he never did before. She makes three times what he does now. that gives her power to tell him to behave. All of these women now make more than their husbands and that gives them power to self actualize. And selling real estate is one tough and complicated job. And as stressful as being a cop. And working as a titile officer or mortgage loan officer is as tough or tougher. Go women. Go everyone.