From Preschool to Theoretical Physics - Coach Roland on Life Long Learning

Should kids do homework? Answer: I am not in favor of homework for kids. College students, yes. Kids, no. It's bad enough to have to sit in a boring classroom 6 to 8 hours a day instead of being free to learn through a discovery process and be with one's parents and brothers and sisters, but then to have afternoon and evening ruined with make work that should have been taken care of during school hours is a travesty.   Read more Now you can download many of Dr. Roland Trujillo's books to your computer or mobile device to start reading and benefiting from right now. For example, you can immediately download My Daughter Does Not Want to Clean Her Room: a Handbook for Parents and Kids for only $5.00. At his request, all eBooks on Scribd are now $5.00 or less. Some much less. If your budget is tight, but you want an informative in depth book about discipline and positive parenting,  you can download Roland's classic Santa's Take on Parenting for only $...

Should Parents Let their Kids Read Harry Potter? Pastor's short answer: Sure. Pastor's long answer: Sure. Harry Potter is fun.

Check out Fourmilab's Your Sky by John Walker. You can enter your longitude and latitude (or the name of a nearby city) and see what the sky will look like tonight. You can also enter in dates in history. This is a wonderful site. Thank you John Walker!

Two year olds don't need discipline, they need direction and redirection. They need watching with love, kindness, and patience. I'm going to tell you the truth. Time outs or spanking are usually substitutes for patience and wisdom. Often after we have become resentful, our patience runs out. Then we feel frustration. If we are not yelling (or worse), we look for some way to force the child to comply. Usually it for our own benefit, that way we can go back to watching television or whatever else we want to do. . We might even resort to a canned, cleverly marketed Orwellian behavior modification program to sugar coat forced compliance. Then there is always the specter of psychotropic meds. . So I have decided to make my latest book (now available at Amazon.com) free for you to read online. . But first, I know what you are going to say, because I have heard it before. . I even heard it from a nice lady who was a receptionist at an office I used to visit. I told her that I was writ...

We have all wondered about the world, nature, and the universe. We also wonder about the meaning of life and why we are here. As kids we laid on the grass and looked at the starry sky at night and we had unvoiced questions that no one could answer. Some of us have read books on religion, cosmology, physics and astronomy. We may have attended some seminars and lectures or taken college classes. But often we got different theories and it was confusing. Or we thought that we needed to be smarter. Our questions went unanswered. Take heart. It really is possible to understand the universe and find the purpose of life. And you do not need advanced degrees. Just and open mind and a sincere curiosity to know the truth. Listen to internet radio with Understanding the Universe on Blog Talk Radio

Yet when we see how shaky were the ostensible foundations on which Einstein built his theory, we can only marvel at the intuition that guided him to his masterpiece. Such intuition is the essence of genius. Were not the foundations of Newton's theory also shaky? And does this lessen his achievement? And did not Maxwell build on a wild mechanical model that he himself found unbelievable? By a sort of divination genius knows from the start in a nebulous way the goal toward which it must strive. Banesh Hoffman in Einstein, Creator and Rebel

"a good scientist needs to cherish the feeling of 'not knowing' as long as possible" "The root cause is that American students, in particular, find it difficult to cope with the state of ``not knowing''. They need to feel they know, even if they can't possibly given the evidence available to them. They are happier feeling they know, and later finding themselves wrong, than in feeling ignorant, and later being enlightened. It's an unfortunate tendency, which tends to hamper their scientific abilities, since a good scientist needs to cherish the feeling of ``not knowing'' as long as possible. It is only in this mental silence, free of unjustifiable hypothesizing, that the truth, which always starts out as a tiny voice indeed, can be heard." Christopher Grayce, PhD, Argonne National Laboratory Office of Science. The above quotes are from an answer to a teacher who was wondering about whether spin creates gravity, as many of her stude...