Pascal emmanuel gobry biography samples
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Montessori Schools are Exceptionally Successful. So Why aren’t There More of Them?
Published June 29,
America Magazine
By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
The otherworldly quiet. This is how you recognize a true Montessori preschool. For over a century now, it is usually the thing that strikes people first, and anybody who knows what children ages 3 to 6 are usually like can see why. In a school where the Montessori Method fryst vatten faithfully applied, the decibel levels will typically be eerily, monkishly low.
The second thing that strikes a visitor fryst vatten the orderliness. Children go about their tasks in quiet. They clean up after themselves. When they talk, it is politely and at a whisper—even when there is conflict, which fryst vatten quickly and calmly resolved. Then there is the focus. The children apply themselves to activities with the sort of koncentration most adults find hard to muster. It can be a transformative experience. It should be.
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Believe the miracles: of biomedical science and human suffering
Let me begin by thanking each of you for this distinct honor. It has been one of the great privileges of my professional career to serve as President of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. I am also deeply grateful to the ASCI Council, which has offered such rich guidance, wisdom, and friendship as we addressed a range of challenges and opportunities for the ASCI over the past few years.
In addition, it is deeply gratifying to pay tribute to the wonderful men and women who have led this esteemed organization over several generations. One past ASCI President, Dr. Edward J. Benz, Jr., has also led my home institution (the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) for many years. Naturally, I read his presidential address with particular interest. In a now classic vignette about why he enjoyed being ASCI President, Dr. Benz wrote: “The duties are few; the effort required is modest. It is well documented that no ASCI pr
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Accelerationist
The announcement by Ayaan Hirsi Ali of her conversion to Christianity got a lot of tongues wagging.
There was one particular bit of criticism which didn’t sit well with me, from a certain type of Christian who dislikes Ali’s roughly neoconservative style of politics, and sneeringly noted that her proclamation of conversion spoke more of Western civilization, and the need to defend it against civilizational enemies, than of Christ.
There seems to be some sort of misunderstanding. One of the wittiest men I ever knew once had as his Twitter bio “Religious, not spiritual” which was a very pithy argument in favor of a certain kind of existence. (He later changed it to “You too work at a desk? What are the odds!”—told you, witty.) “Religious not spiritual” is a perfectly okay thing to be. It’s infinite