[xmca] Eloquence and Explicitness

Hi everyone:
I just returned from an energizing, week-long urban education immersion
experience with my grad students in Harlem. We were fortunate to have
the opportunity to work with an incredible school faculty challenging
the harmful effects of intellectual trash and social violence espoused
by Watson and others for generations. His comments provide further
evidence of the need for us to make our explorations in mind, activity,
and culture eloquent and explicit to educators and the general public as
well as the not-so-ivory tower.
Best,
Cathrene

David Preiss wrote:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7052416.stm
>
> In his Sunday Times interview, Dr James Watson was quoted as saying he
> was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our
> social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the
> same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really".
>
> He was further quoted as saying that his hope was that everyone was
> equal but that "people who have to deal with black employees find this
> is not true".
>
>
>
> Just disgusting, racist, horrible...
>
> David
>
>
> David Preiss, Ph.D.
> Subdirector de Extensión y Comunicaciones
> Escuela de Psicología
> Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
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> Macul, Santiago
> Chile
>
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Dr. M. Cathrene Connery
Assistant Professor of Education
607.274.7382
Ithaca College
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