Two Heads are Better A FREE lesson your learners will always remember! A New DVD Film, Death March from Bataan to Manchuria: Raising a Survivor’s Voice The communal intelligence in discrepant event inquiry, as in the making and remaking (1787) of the American Constitution, expands and improves single intelligence: two heads are better than one. The findings from a group improve the chances for better thinking skills, standards, ethics, facts, ideals, and evaluations common to each member. Individualism ranks high on the important scale. Knowledge increased by community effort, though, still gives the best results. We need to frequently remind ourselves that the schools, government, roads, and hospitals we use now, are the concrete consequence of our ancestors' judgments. Why do we need to remind ourselves? Where are the societies that increased their enlightenment, flourished, and then crumbled? The Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Aztec, and many other societies evolved into powerful civilizations. Communities within each empire worked together. All too soon, group intelligence was extracted from influence. Many of the empire leaders realized that the realm should keep the masses entertained instead of enlightened. The leaders felt afraid of mass intelligence. The leaders convinced themselves of the following ideas: A non-thinking community thinks obscurely; that's what we need. If the people are too busy to notice the truth, that we're building monumental buildings, instead of building people-related infrastructures, the people will support us until the end. Down with peoplehood! You clearly see the links connecting discrepant event inquiry, power thinking, community thinking, and civilization. Civilization grows. Civilization dies. As community knowledge dies, we've seen repeatedly, so goes the society. Community knowledge begins to die when leaders begin to exhaust the communities' resources. A void occurs. The vacuum, between the leaders and the society's community knowledge, isolates the needed external and internal influences that would save the resources. You're aware of those facts of history, but do you remember to relate them to your own society and classroom, daily? When you read the words: "People are our greatest resource," do you believe it? You know that failed civilizations lost their reality sight. You know that failed civilizations lost sight of the importance of humanity. You know that failed civilizations lost sight of people at the grass roots, people able to figure things out for the good of all. Back to main Power Problem Solving What are America's Strongest Links? Teachers and Power Problem Solving Inquiry and Democracy A Revolution in Learning by Jean K. Bruce Free Discrepant Event, Friends, anti-smoking & tobacco Professor William C. Bruce Jean K. Bruce Mindtronics! and Inquiry Alive!

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