By Riane Eisler — 2012
A recent poll found that the biggest issue for voters as the 2008 election approaches is not the Iraq war. It's an issue that leaders have not been focusing on: the well-being of America's children.
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CLEAR ALL
Don't underestimate young people's power to change the world.
A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
“The movement towards personalization is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that direction in education, too.”
Today’s kids are the smartest and most driven on record. But many of them are also the loneliest, most stressed, most risk averse and most depressed.
I am becoming increasingly concerned that intellectually gifted children are being denied opportunities because they are being labeled either Asperger’s or high functioning autism.