Deborah Stipek

I don't want to go back.

And I cite the work of Deborah Stipek, longtime dean of education at Stanford, who found that kids form attitudes towards school early.

And those attitudes once formed are global, stable, and non-contingent.

Once that boy decides he hates school, you come back four years later, you come back 10 years later.

It is not developmentally appropriate to ask a five-year-old boy to sit still, be quiet, and learn about diphthongs for an hour.

And the result is boys who decide, I'm stupid.

And again, Deborah Stipek finds once that boy forms that belief, it is global, stable, and non-contentioned.

Global means stable.

I don't want to go back.

Deborah Stipek, longtime dean of education at Stanford, has found that kids form attitudes towards school early,

and

those attitudes once formed are global, stable, and non-contingent.