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...Karachi The Secrets of Ambition Staying power is important, but success has many more elements than ambition [Feb. 13]. Talent, vision and just plain luck play a role too. Perhaps the greatest ambition a person can have is to be a complete human being. That's what I will teach my children. Todd R. Lockwood South Burlington, Vermont, U.S. I wish that your article had featured ordinary folks whose ambition drove them to be successful physicians, caregivers, inventors and scientists - people who actually work to keep humankind alive and functioning. Here's to the B-team players! Bill Lenters Rockford...
...Carville: It probably came out of the fact that I thought Election was just an incredible movie. I teach at a community college, Northern Virginia Community College. I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up. I tell people I'm in a 61-year battle with maturity and I'm holding...
...that is probably healthy, provided that parents set limits on where their kids can venture online, teach them to exercise caution and regulate how much time they can spend with electronics in general. The problem is that most parents don't. According to the Kaiser survey, only 23% of seventh- to 12th-graders say their family has rules about computer activity; just 17% say they have restrictions on video-game time...
Just as important is for parents and educators to teach kids, preferably by example, that it's valuable, even essential, to occasionally slow down, unplug and take time to think about something for a while. David Levy, a professor at the University of Washington Information School, has found, to his surprise, that his most technophilic undergraduates--those majoring in "informatics"--are genuinely concerned about getting lost in the multitasking blur. In an informal poll of 60 students last semester, he says, the majority expressed concerns about how plugged-in they were and "the way it takes them away from other...
Generation M has a lot to teach parents and teachers about what new technology can do. But it's up to grownups to show them what it can't do, and that there's life beyond the screen...