April 1, 2009

I think this clip has enormous implications for parenting and teaching.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Testing our intuition. Wow. What a concept. We have to really work at learning to TRUST our intuition in the first place,but then actually TESTING it??? Wow..that's a leap. One that is necessary to come to, but will we ever? Can we? Is the world ready for that?

K said...

What hit me so strongly, was looking scientifically at how immoral parents will raise immoral children - how it happens. It explains a lot my personal family. I can tell that much.

Cecelia (CC) said...

It would be fun to pay teachers $150,000 a year minimum and see what happens to the educational system.

K said...

I don't know. Teachers are underpaid, for sure. But I'm not sure money can fix what's wrong with that system.

Heather said...

Two gems for me at the end: "you did not take my pain into account" and "...she thought her intuition was right... it was very difficult for her to accept doing a difficult experiment to check whether she was wrong."

Moreso than just morality, the idea of doing something so far outside of that comfort zone - even when it's possibly a much better choice - is scary and incredibly hard to do. This speaks a lot to the way I parent my children, why doing the "right" thing comes so much more naturally and less painfully to some than for others, and maybe why some continue a cycle of negative behavior even when they know it's wrong.