I was skimming through a book I recently found at a local thrift store. It's about the benefits of reading aloud to your children. One of the headings:
How Does this Fit with the Calls for Higher National Standards?
IQ= Intelligent Quotient...
HQ= Heart Quotient
How Does this Fit with the Calls for Higher National Standards?
IQ= Intelligent Quotient...
HQ= Heart Quotient
"Yes, student exam scores are important, but both scores must be addressed-the IQ and the HQ. When we focus exclusively on the paper scores, we need to remember that the most educated nation in nearly 2,000 years led the world in math and science in 1930. It also became the Third Reich. The Holocaust could never have happened if the German heart had been as well educated as the German mind.
"So how do we educate the heart? There are really only 2 ways: life experience and stories about life experience, which is called literature. All the great preachers and all the great teachers of the heart have used stories to get their lesson plans across---Aesop, Socrates, Confucius, Moses, and Jesus---stories about mustard seeds and shepherds and vineyards and prostitutes and fishermen and travelers. It is the power of story to educate upstairs (the mind) and downstairs (the heart)."
As I find myself becoming more intrigued with WW II, I find the above fascinating.
"So how do we educate the heart? There are really only 2 ways: life experience and stories about life experience, which is called literature. All the great preachers and all the great teachers of the heart have used stories to get their lesson plans across---Aesop, Socrates, Confucius, Moses, and Jesus---stories about mustard seeds and shepherds and vineyards and prostitutes and fishermen and travelers. It is the power of story to educate upstairs (the mind) and downstairs (the heart)."
As I find myself becoming more intrigued with WW II, I find the above fascinating.
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