Sunday, February 5, 2012

How America made its children crazy

article in Asia Times by Spengler , quoting an article on ADD and drugs used to "cure" it:
Professor L Alan Sroufe's debunking of ADD medication in the New York Times contains this admission:

''Back in the 1960s I, like most psychologists, believed that children with difficulty concentrating were suffering from a brain problem of genetic or otherwise inborn origin. Just as Type I diabetics need insulin to correct problems with their inborn biochemistry, these children were believed to require attention-deficit drugs to correct theirs. It turns out, however, that there is little to no evidence to support this theory.''
and many other interesting things about elite schools, where teaching is done in a very traditional way, and the "most wired" schools in America, teaching Shakespeare through rap.