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Cool. I didn't knew that. So there are possible anatomical differences. It could be important. But, you know, I chatted some time ago with a nurse who worked w
by ordu 8y ago
Cool. I didn't knew that. So there are possible anatomical differences. It could be important.
But, you know, I chatted some time ago with a nurse who worked with children with neurological disabilities of some kind, which rendered them unable to attend a regular school. She insisted on the idea, that disabilities is not an excuse for a child to be freed from normal expectations. It was like "you are 8 years old, get the spoon and use it yourself, you can do it". Moreover she refused to work with children whose parents interfered with her methods. She said it is ok, if mother feels pity for her child and cannot see how her child struggles with a spoon and because of that helps him/her. But only outside of working hours of the nurse. When she is here, she is in command, and mother should not interfere. If parents interfered, she believed her work to be futile because child will grow disabled not by a physical condition, but by a mental representation of himself, he would think of himself as of disabled, he would make excuses to not try to do what is hard to do for him, and so on.
I don't know what was the psychological outcomes for her pupils, but they grew to an almost normal adults in means of physical and mental abilities. Or at least she told me so, and I believe her.
I mean, it is not good for a learning to doubt your innate abilities. A learner must believe in herself, or she would face more problems than she might. It is why I do not like when media tells everyone that there are a "nature" component in any "nature vs nurture" question. From other side I do not like to not like, because I believe that it is not good to believe in lies, but... I don't know. It is too complicated.