Is Humanitarian Aid bad for Africa?
Most of us believe that humanitarian aid is a morally pure way to respond to suffering in the world.
The colonial mindset of ‘we know best’ has surely persisted; the trouble is that we haven’t learned the difference between doing good and feeling good. Until we do, many of our aid efforts will be worse than useless.
- Margaret Wente
The Curse of giftedness
Their intellectual gifts mean they are even more aware of the flaws in their clay, of how short they fall from self-imposed goals. “People are forever telling me the achievements of my life and yet I feel I’ve accomplished nothing – nothing compared to what I might achieve
Success in school does not predict success outside of it.
Empathy, like creativity and imagination, is not something that intelligence tests are good at identifying.
…was an overweight couch potato, depressed at his failure to live up to his parents’ expectations, but once he escaped, he blossomed as an adult to become happy…
Love all the child’s gifts and faults. The concept of ‘gifted child’ is a man made phrase, an arbitrary line.
- Elizabeth Renzetti
Do we want to be remembered as people who categorized and labelled children (to their detriment), or as people who helped all children fulfill their potential?
- Tralee Pearce
An Industrial Strength Argument for Silver over Gold
Silver is essentially an industrial metal, and should trade on supply/demand fundamentals.
It typically outperforms gold in times of economic recovery; it responds to the increased demand that an economic expansion implies. Financial demand for precious metals can be fickle. Gold has much greater exposure to ‘financial demand – purchases made by investors – leaving it more exposed to the changing moods of the market. [Bulsing] feels most comfortable with the metal that has the strongest fundamental demand.
- David Parkinson
“To me it comes down to choice. I am not interested in imposing my views on anyone any more than I’m interested in having their views imposed on me.” – Danielle Smith
Globe & Mail
Nov. 13, 2010