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Of all the areas of learning the most important is the development of attitudes.
Emotional reactions as well as logical thought processes affect the behavior of most people.
“The burnt child fears the fire” is one instance; another is the rise of figures like Hitler.
Both these examples also point up the fact that attitudes come from experience.
In the one case the experience is direct and impressive, in the other it is indirect and gradual.
The class room teacher in the elementary school is in strategic position to influence attitudes.
This is true partly because children acquire attitudes from those adults whose words theyrespect.
Another reason why it is true is that pupils often search somewhat deeply into a subject inschool that has only been touched upon at home or has possibly never occurred to thembefore.
To a child who had previously acquired little knowledge of Mexico, his teacher's method ofhandling such a unit would greatly affect his attitude toward Mexicans.
The teacher can develop proper attitudes through social studies, science matters, the veryatmosphere of the classroom, etc.
However, when children come to school with undesirable attitudes, it is unwise to attempt tochange their feelings by criticizing them.
The teacher can achieve the proper effect by helping them obtain constructive experience.
To illustrate, first-grade pupils, afraid of policemen will probably change their attitudes after aclassroom talk with the neighborhood officer in which he explains how he protects them.
In the same way, a class of older children can develop attitudes through discussion, researchand all-day trips.
Finally, a teacher must constantly evaluate his own attitudes, because his influence can beharmful if he has personal prejudices.
This is especially true in respect to controversial issues and questions of which children shouldbe encouraged to reach their own conclusion as result of objective analysis of all the facts.
Here's my simple test for a product of today's technology: I go to the bookstore and check theshelves for remedial books.
The more books there are, the more my suspicions are raised.
If computers and computer programs are getting easier to use, why are so many companies stillmaking a nice living publishing books on how to use them?
Computers manipulate information, but information is invisible.
There's nothing to see or touch.
The programmer decides what you see on the screen.
Computers don't have knobs like old radios.
They don't have buttons, not real buttons.
Instead, more and more programs display pictures of buttons, moving even further intoabstraction and arbitrariness.
I like computers, but I hope they will disappear, that they will seem as stranger to ourdescendants as the technologies of our grandparents appear to us.
Today's computers are indeed getting easier to us, but look where they started: so difficult thatalmost any improvement was welcome.
Computers have the power to allow people within a company, across a nation or even aroundthe world to work together.
But this power will be wasted if tomorrow's computers aren't designed around the needs andcapabilities of the human beings who must use them — a people-centered philosophy, in otherwords.
This means retooling computers to cope with human strengths, observing, communicating andinnovating instead of asking people to conform to the unnatural behavior computers demand.
That just leads to error.
Many of today's machines try to do too much.
When a complicated work processor attempts to double as a desktop pulsing program or akitchen appliance come with half a dozen attachments, the product is bound to be awkwardand burdensome.
My favorite example of a technological product on just the right scale is an electronicdictionary.
It can be made smaller, lighter and far easier to use than a print version, not only givingmeanings but even pronouncing the words.
Today's electronic dictionaries, with their tiny keys and barely legible displays, are primitivebut they are on the right track.
Man will never conquer space.
Such a statement may sound absurd, after we have made such long strides into space.
Yet it expresses a truth that our forefathers knew and we have forgotten, one that ourdescendants must learn again, in heartbreak and loneliness.
Our age is in many ways unique, full of phenomena that never occurred before and may nevercome again.
They distort our thinking, making us believe that what is true now will be true forever, thoughperhaps on a larger scale.
Because we have annihilated distance on this planet, we imagine that we can do the same inspace.
The truth is otherwise, and we will see it more clearly if we forget the present and turn ourminds toward the past.
To our ancestors, the vastness of the earth was a dominant factor in their thoughts and lives.
No man could ever see more than a tiny fraction of the earth.
Only a lifetime ago, parents waved farewell to their emigrating children, knowing they wouldnever see them again.
Now, within one incredible generation, all this has changed.
Psychologically as well as physically, there are no longer any remote places on earth.
When a friend leaves for what was once a distant country, he cannot feel the same sense ofirrevocable separation that saddened our forefathers.
We know that he is only hours away by air, and we have merely to reach for the telephone tohear his voice.
When the satellite communication network is fully established, it will be as easy to seefriends on the far side of the earth as to talk to them on the other side of the town.
Then the world will shrink no more.
From a world that has become too small, we are moving out into one that will be forever toolarge, whose frontiers will recede from us always more swiftly than we can reach out towardthem.
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