RE: Education Philosophy (and 'not sure of the thread')

[Kromkowski@aol.com]

Morris Taylor" <wmt@netcomuk.co.uk>  wrote:

>>Could it be that, because of Individual Differences (and, for that matter,
cultural differences), there are not as many Human Universals as we might at
first think.>>

NO, NO, NO.  Once again, the lessons of understanding variation (what meaning 
does one ascribe to ubiquitous individual differences in sets of people, 
things, data) have failed to have been grasped.  And in the case cited above, 
one should not fail to see how a failure to understand variation leads people 
down the road of racism, bigotry, and prejudice.

Understanding Variation is NOT the same as recognizing that there are 
differences.  Your statement is an example of treating common cause variation 
as if it were special cause variation.

John David Kromkowski
Kromkowski@aol.com
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