It s not that the information is not out there and well known in various circles, it s just the education circle can be pretty square, sometimes. For instance, we, the human animal, have an innate drive or aggressiveness to fulfill a genetic potential. The genetic potential is what Audrey refers to when he uses the term self fulfillment or when Maslow uses the term self actualization . The search for identity, the drive to stake one s certain place in one s society, the drive to achieve is the most important, the strongest of the innate drives, more important than either stimulation for self preservation or preservation of the species or the third of the triangle, the equalibrium, heightening or lessening of anxiety, or what we have termed stress . Unfortunately, educationalists somehow have managed to develope a remarkable ignorance of genetic potential, while, at the same time, somehow have contrived to attach a mythical importance to what they refer to as self esteem .
Educationalists seem to think that they can control genetic potential in their students.
They seem to be under the impression that they can stimulate through good works a student s capacity to learn and to produce positive quality. That, of course, is innane. Each human is born with only a certain amount of genetic potential, and no matter how long the person may live or what the person may learn, or what the person may eat, the person will not grow anymore genetic potential. Don t do anything to hurt their self esteem. That thought is rife in education today.