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    A GOOD TEACHER MAKES ALL THE

    DIFFERENCE
    by Paul

    Henrickson, Ph.D. tm. © 2008

    This line is the introductory line to an on-line offer to get a teaching degree.
    Its message troubled me considerably for while I do believe the statement to
    be absolutely true…’a good teacher does make all the difference” even
    while I over look the fact that the word “educator” might have been more
    correct than the word :”teacher”, the intent, I thought, was to call attention
    to that particular relationship that exists between a young person and a
    more experienced one who gets the reward of seeing the “glow of
    understanding” as it brightens up the face. Later, if we are lucky that “glow”
    turns into a torrent of energy that can literally change the world.

    One of the significant inhibitors to all aspects of this procedure, that is the
    “road to enlightenment” is the culturally encouraged practice of social
    deceit…where you convince those about you that you are what you want
    them to see you as…but that you are not, Of course, the only reason that
    sort of duplicity works is when the audience is ignorant. Two hundred years
    ago we were warned about that and a good education was thought to be the
    foundation of a working democracy.
    Well, it seems, the United States of America, no longer has a working
    democracy which is what I started to realize forty years ago, but, being a
    slow learner, or a hopeful believer, the truth of what I had discovered in my
    research into aspects of creative behavior while at The University of Northern
    Iowa hadn’t really blossomed fort h until 9/11.

    Then, while I was some 6-7,000 miles away from New York and a neighbor-
    friend called me over to witness the dramatic television presentations of the
    planes hitting the towers, I sensed that the explanation being voiced to us
    by the TV announcer was incorrect and this it was probably a factor of
    premature judgment. Later, I came to the conclusion it was not premature
    judgment at all, but a deliberate attempt to mislead and to till the ground
    before seeding it with tares . (ζιζάνιον).
    The comparison between that event and my UNI research is this: my research
    revealed that creative people as determined by two tasks of creativity ,one verbal,
    one non-verbal, and independently composed tests of lying revealed that those
    determined, by my tasks, to be creative were also identified by these lying tests
    not to lie for personal advantage , but sometimes, to make errors.

    My UNI tests also revealed that that those judged creative consistently received a
    GPA average (in both high school and undergraduate college levels) one (1) point
    below those students who were allowed to proceed into the teacher preparation
    curriculum, thus assuring the teaching profession that there would be, at least a
    majority, of non-creative liars to assure the continuance of their agenda.

    This agenda may be much more complex and duplicitous than had first appeared to
    me forty years ago and behaviors of those individuals assigned to be webmaster at
    school websites , who have been given the powers to decide what teachers should
    read and they should not read and who have decided that since they have the
    power to shape events about which they know nothing have decided to enjoy the
    roller-coaster ride of destruction their inappropriate “playfulness” engenders…no
    matter how many young lives and genuine professional aspirations are demolished
    in the meantime.

    This “shut-down” on communication, so vital to a civilized community, has also


    permeated the U.S. Consular offices in, in this case, Malta where one having been
    caught in having ignored an early request for absentee balloting ending in my
    having been disenfranchised and further email communication to that office has
    been blocked by that Consular office .

    Eric Catalfamo
    Consul
    U.S. Embassy Valletta

    So I might ask, what is the proper punishment for a U.S. Consular Diplomat having
    blocked the communication of a U.S. Citizen to his Embassy? Where is there the
    concept of democracy in this behavior? I see none, but I do see an extension of the
    acceptance of lying based on consensual opinion …we must agree with each other,
    mustn’t we, so that life will be smooth.

    This is only a guess, but it appears to me that all our


    venues of social contact have been co-opted by some coup
    with individuals in key places who make sure the agenda
    proceeds irreversibly. I also feel that there may be a few
    individuals out there who having already sensed that
    there is something gravely amiss but are uncertain as to
    what action to take.
    Paul Henrickson

    www.tcp.com.mt

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