On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:28:23AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > It has EVERYTHING to do with the fact > that different people learn and perceive in different ways. Some people > learn and take in information best when everything is neat and orderly. > Others do best in what may be perceived as a chaotic environment. Some deal > only with facts, others work intuitively. > > This has been proven many times and is FACT. It's something I, as a special > ed teacher working in residential treatment facilities, have had to deal with > over and over in my life. If you want a pop-culture example, go out and read > about the Myers-Briggs personality type test. I realize that I'm taking a crazy, meandering thread even farther off topic here, but I can't resist tossing this little detail in here. If you want a personality-typing system that's a whole *lot* more insightful and flexible than the ol' Myers-Briggs, check out the Enneagram. These folks by no means invented it, but they do some of the most sound and usable writing on the subject: http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/ I own a couple of their dead-tree books, and recommend them highly. I always hated personality-typing systems in general, finding that they always tended to either stuff people in rigid little boxes, or be so vague you might as well use a horoscope. With the Enneagram's flexibility (nine basic types, each can have either of two adjacent types as a "wing", nine levels of healthy/unhealthy continuum, each type can "integrate" or "disintegrate" to incorporate facets of either of two more types...) it actually stands a fighting chance of providing useful insight into the complicated, messy, organic system that we call a person. Of course, this comes with a little bit of a learning curve at the beginning... kinda like Debian (or Linux in general)... Hey, I seem to have meandered back into being kinda-sorta-maybe on-topic! Anyway, sorry if this reads like a sales pitch... But you know how it is when you stumble upon something that's so cool you've just *got* to share it. Don't you? -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | If it doesn't work, force it. < > Please do not | If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. < > reply off-list. | < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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