Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed

This is ABSOLUTELY TRUE by the way.

I got this in a fortune cookie likely at a Chinese Restaurant and thought it was both profound and wonderful. Today I found this little strip of printed paper in my shaving kit while packing and realized I had to write about it.

While I was Home schooling my oldest children from 1980 to 1985 using the Oak Meadow School Independent study program which likely still is very reasonable and protects the parent from legal harm whether or not either of the parents have a teaching credential or not.

Here is more information about it if you are interested and have the time to home school your kids on independent study for one or more years (anywhere on earth).

Oak Meadow

https://oakmeadow.com/
Oak Meadow's progressive, experiential homeschooling curriculum for kindergarten to grade 8 and highschool is flexible, affordable, nature-based. Use the ...

About Our Distance Learning School | Oak Meadow

https://oakmeadow.com/what-we-do/our-approach/distance-learning/
Oak Meadow School is an internationally accredited kindergarten through twelfth grade distance learning institution, and the first distance learning school ever to receive accreditation from the prestigious New England Association of Schools & Colleges (NEASC). ... According to the ...

High School | Oak Meadow

https://oakmeadow.com/what-we-do/high-school/
Is school keeping you from doing what you love to do? If you're looking for the freedom and flexibility to pursue your interests and talents while gaining a ...

Grades K-8 | Oak Meadow

https://oakmeadow.com/what-we-do/grades-k8/
Middle School: Grades 5-8. Students at this age develop skills in critical thinking and creative problem solving through a variety of projects, assignments, and ...

Oak Meadow Elementary School: Home Page - El Dorado Hills

omes.buckeyeusd.org/
Earn $$$ for our school by clipping and sending in Box Tops. ... Congratulations Oak MeadowElementary for being selected as a California Distinguished ...

Oak Meadow School - School Directory Details (CA Dept of Education)

https://www.cde.ca.gov/SchoolDirectory/details?cdscode=19647337016280
Located within the boundaries of this public school district, Los Angeles Unified. School, Oak Meadow School. CDS Code. 19 64733 7016280. Web Address.

High School Courses - Oak Meadow Bookstore

www.oakmeadowbookstore.com/High-School-Courses-c158/
oak meadow independent learning since 1975. Home ... High School Social Studies · High School Fine Arts · High School Health & Physical Education ...

The true story I would like to share is a study that was done without the knowledge (at first of the teacher or teachers involved).

Here is what the researchers did.

They took the grades of a class of kids (A through F) for everyone in the class. Then they decided to trick the teacher by telling them that all the F students were A students the year before and all the A Students were F students the year before.

And what happened. The ones the teachers expected to be A students WERE STILL A students and the ones the teachers EXPECTED to be F students were still F students (even though the opposite was actually true the year before.

PROVING: We all are geniuses if we are given even 1/2 a chance.

No one is a dunce they are made dunces by the people around them!

We are all geniuses or potential geniuses always!

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