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Some Wikipedia Quotes from term "Pygmalion Effect":

James Rhem, executive editor for the online National Teaching and Learning Forum, commented:

"When teachers expect students to do well and show intellectual growth, they do; when teachers do not have such expectations, performance and growth are not so encouraged and may in fact be discouraged in a variety of ways."

"How we believe the world is and what we honestly think it can become have powerful effects on how things will turn out.

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford

In 2004, US President George W. Bush referred to "the soft bigotry of low expectations" as one of the challenges faced by disadvantaged and minority students.

I am a tomboy. Always was. I'm also a tech geek. I seldom fit the "girl" mold, and rebelled at being told xyz is hard for guurrlls. Oh, BS! I'm not a girl, I'm a human being! So I took physics, trigonometry, and electronics. "Pbpbpbpt! Nyah-nyah!"

During high school, I was part of an experimental group that was given the ASVAB test each of the four years, and tracked to see if familiarity would improve our scores. The first year, I took it just out of curiosity. Each year after that, I eagerly awaited the test to get my dose of brain candy . . . folding up the little patterned boxes! Fun time/happy dance! My classmates complained that it was the hardest part of the test, males and females. When I said it was just like matching the cloth pattern on a sewing project, the guys groaned and the girls went "Oh, yeah!" (Yes, every student in my school system took Home Ec. And Shop, and Office Skills.)

Imagine my disappointment, and utter disgust, when I took the test to actually enlist and my brain candy foldy boxes *weren't* *there!* I asked my recruiter why. "Oh, that section was taken out a few years ago because it's unfair to women. Women just can't do spatial relations very well." WHA-A-A-T!?

Spatial relations is something that women do every day, have done for millennia: put away groceries, pack up boxes, fit clothing together for sewing. Saying we have a "natural" limitation on it is pure BS. Same with math. Mathematics is a *language.* Women are naturally good at language, so saying that we can't learn to put a sentence together using different symbols is also BS.

That young women are *still* taught these lies is despicable.

I am a tomboy. Always was. I'm also a tech geek. I seldom fit the "girl" mold, and rebelled at being told xyz is hard for guurrlls. Oh, BS! I'm not a girl, I'm a human being! So I took physics, trigonometry, and electronics. "Pbpbpbpt! Nyah-nyah!"

During high school, I was part of an experimental group that was given the ASVAB test each of the four years, and tracked to see if familiarity would improve our scores. The first year, I took it just out of curiosity. Each year after that, I eagerly awaited the test to get my dose of brain candy . . . folding up the little patterned boxes! Fun time/happy dance! My classmates complained that it was the hardest part of the test, males and females. When I said it was just like matching the cloth pattern on a sewing project, the guys groaned and the girls went "Oh, yeah!" (Yes, every student in my school system took Home Ec. And Shop, and Office Skills.)

Imagine my disappointment, and utter disgust, when I took the test to actually enlist and my brain candy foldy boxes *weren't* *there!* I asked my recruiter why. "Oh, that section was taken out a few years ago because it's unfair to women. Women just can't do spatial relations very well." WHA-A-A-T!?

Spatial relations is something that women do every day, have done for millennia: put away groceries, pack up boxes, fit clothing together for sewing. Saying we have a "natural" limitation on it is pure BS. Same with math. Mathematics is a *language.* Women are naturally good at language, so saying that we can't learn to put a sentence together using different symbols is also BS.

That young women are *still* taught these lies is despicable.

Certainly, ''Mania'' can be confused as confidence,and often is.

I want to know the ''motivations'' behind a persons confidence,before signing on to a persons enthusiasm.

Fun work,as always!

... and once again we see a wonderful article about, and asking the source of confidence, and again I will offer that "confidence" and "certainty" (not arrogance) are synonyms and that problems are created in the Conventional (Objective) domain and they are mitigated in the Existential (subjective) domain.

No matter your uncertainty about something (Conventional) you are, always, 100% certain of that uncertainty - Existential.

Existentially everything is already, always, perfect. So when in doubt, try to strengthen the mental muscle that you are certain about your uncertainty. Goodbye suffering.

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