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Psychologists like Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget (who were more than interested in how the child develops) concluded that obsession is a normal part of growing up. First, obsessed with dolls and baseball stats. Later, obsessed with political systems, religions, ideologies. In the 1970s little Stevie Jobs and Billy Gates were taken with computers. Why? Because these microcosms of interest gave them worlds they could inhabit and control? Maybe...
Previous Jefferson lecturers have been Arthur Miller, James McPherson, Caroline Walker Bynum, Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Toulmin, Toni Morrison, Vincent Scully, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bernard Knox, Walker Percy, Cleanth Brooks, Sydney Hook, Barbara Tuchman, Saul Bellow, John Hope Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Erik Erikson, and Lionel Trilling...
...change will have little dampening effect on the blazes. Fire officials say that rain is the best change that they can hope for, and is the key to ending the wildfires. There is some hope on the horizon, in the form of two giant water-bombing helicopters. Two Erikson Air-Crane Helitankers are expected to arrive in the area Monday, courtesy of fire officials in the western...
...everyone, of course, is in favor of Head Start. In an effort to delineate the debate between program supporters and detractors, TIME.com spoke with representatives of organizations with very different viewpoints. First, Professor Fran Stott, the Vice President and Dean of Academic Programs at the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in childhood development that was founded in 1966 to educate Head Start teachers. On the other side of the issue is Krista Kafer, an Education Policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C., a non-profit research institute that has historically taken a very skeptical view of Head Start...
...Psychiatrist Stuart Twemlow, director of the Erik H. Erikson Institute for Education and Research in Stockbridge, Mass., notes that a significant subgroup of the school shooters consists of kids who come from relatively affluent families, who are academically above average, if not gifted, and who rarely have the qualities expected of violent offenders--such as a history of substance abuse or mental disorder. In Twemlow's view, this is no coincidence. "Bullying is more common in affluent schools probably than in the low-income schools," he says. It is spurred, he believes, by "the dynamics that come...