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- Title: Educating Mind and Spirit: Embracing a Confluence of Cultures in the Education of Children.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 193 KB
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The following is an adaptation of the keynote address Steve Silvern delivered at the 2006 ACEI Annual International Conference & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas. As a educators we have a pretty good grasp of what we mean by "mind." At least we think we do. Mind is associated with thought and rational behavior (Piaget, 1969). When we are really concentrating, we "put our minds to it." Mind is associated with the brain. When we are thinking hard, our "brains hurt." But while the brain is indicated as a "center" for thoughts, it may not be the sole location for thought. If our language reflects reality, then when we memorize something, we don't learn it by brain or by mind; rather, we "learn it by heart." In Hebrew, if I want you to pay close attention, I say you must "put your heart to it." We often say that you know it in your heart to be true, as in the presidential campaign slogan of 1964, "In your heart, you know he's right." However, if we know something to be absolutely true, we know it in our guts. The response to the above slogan was, "But in your guts, you know he's nuts." Similarly, if we have an intuition, we have a "gut feeling." My grandmother would say you know it in your kishkes (innards). So rather than a place, "mind" refers to an activity--the activity of being rational.