We've got some amazing new technologies that can teach children to manage their brains from an early age.

This is where NLP and associated ‘sciences’ come in useful.. Kids can be taught some of the skills of rapport, language, second positioning, pacing and leading, creativity processes, creating anchors for the good times, positive self talk, affirmations etc…

By Marianne Williamson

As the nation paused on his birthday to give honor to the life of Martin Luther King Jr., I noticed how with each passing year, Dr. King becomes less a man, and more an image. Generations of people now speak of him who have no memory of that tragic day when Dr. King was killed, much less the heady days when he lived among us. While we have been successful at keeping his memory alive, we often fail to recognize, and pass along, the richness and complexity of the ideas for which he lived and died.  Marianne Williamson

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© Thom Hartmann – June 2001

If you want to do something about the “high” price of gasoline, don’t bother with pathetic, whiney publicity stunts to try to shame or intimidate or scare the fossil-fuel suppliers into selling you the same amount at a lower price. It won’t work, because there’s a limited supply of this fossil, and everybody knows it. 

What can we do about education?

It’s time for an alternative curriculum. Facts about anything and everything are freely available in libraries and more so now on the Internet. Kids can find out about anything that interests them if they are encourage do so. Learning that Hitler is an evil man in history is not useful. Being encouraged to discover that Hitler was helpless without all the people and governments who accepted and supported him in his philosophy, is far more useful..

Caitlin Moran, the prodigy child author who produced her first best seller at age 17 was removed from the formal education system by her parents at a very early age.