By the time I have sent this home-page to Jim Levin, the students in Ed. Psy. 387 will be editing Bruce's taxonomy and subsequently changing for the better the world of Internet. In other words the relative steps I take towards mastering the html editor will be tiny ones. The last time I delved into a computer was six years ago as an undergrad. I was attempting to learn how to program in Fortran as a CS 101 student. Enough of these apologies concerning my computer ignorance, I will now introduce myself.
As an undergrad at the U. of I. I studied mathematics. I have always held an interest in the education process. Consequently the education classes I have taken will provide myself with a secondary education degree. At this time in my life the education field is a passive interest. Maybe someday I will be teaching students math or any other field of study. Currently I am not ready to present myself as an educator. The reason for this postponment can be explained with a story about Ghandi, the spiritual ruler of India.
A mother in India had a problem with her child being hyperactive. The reason for the child's hyperactivity was his consumption of sugar. The child would not listen to his mother's insistence to stop eating sugar. She knew that the only person her son would listen to was Ghandi. So she brought her son to see him and asked of him to stop her son from eating sugar. Ghandi told the mother to come back with her son in three months and at that time he would tell the child to stop eating sugar. The mother and child came back to him and Ghandi did as he said. The child never ate sugar again and became a pensive and calm son. But the mother was curious to know why she had to come back in three months in order for this to happen. Ghandi told her that in order to tell the child to stop eating sugar he himself also needed to stop eating sugar. It took him three months to do so.
The message is that before I can go into a classroom and tell students that they need to do this or that I must also be doing these things. Forming habits such as reading everyday,