Elkind Quotes

Shift from modern nuclear family to the postmodern permeable family.

Tal como han mostrado las famosas investigaciones del psicólogo David Elkind, la adolescencia está marcada por un fenómeno conocido ahora como la “audiencia imaginaria”. Pensemos en un niño de 13 años que vive tan avergonzado que es capaz de perder una semana de clases porque está seguro de que toda la escuela está pensando y murmurando sobre un pequeño incidente (que en realidad nadie notó). O en una quinceañera

We’ve decided to go with black and white,” he said. “This project is over.” Smith was stunned. “You’re crazy!” he blurted. “It’s going to be all color from here on out, and you guys can own it all! I can’t believe you’re shutting it down.” “Well,” Elkind replied evenly, “it’s a corporate decision.” Smith had no choice but to leave. With a fellow artist and Superpaint fanatic, David DiFrancesco, he drove off toward Utah in quest of permission to continue his work on a frame buffer installed at the university there. He failed to get it, but instead received an invitation to set up a video program at the private New York Institute of Technology. The department later transferred en masse to George Lucas’s Lucasfilm and even later was spun off as Pixar,

handed Elkind the completed manuscript of “Man-Computer Symbiosis” on January 13, 1960.

The public outcry grew, dampening enthusiasm for the project at the LACTC. Jacki Bacharach, a Valley native who now lived on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the far southern part of the county, headed the committee studying various Valley routes. She held numerous community hearings that resulted in an outpouring of negativity from local residents. “When the Blue Line was being built, I would go to Compton and Watts a lot to go to meetings, without problem,” Bacharach said, referring to South Los Angeles communities with a reputation for crime. “But when I went to the Valley to do the public hearings for the development of rail, I asked for an escort to my car, because those people were like crazy people. They were threatening, they felt more entitled, and they were just not really nice people to deal with. And I grew up in the Valley, and I kept thinking these are ‘my people.’ Nobody could agree with anybody.

In the United States, the negative legacy of humanism and the reliance on books, recitation, and role learning have been difficult to overcome.

Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind’s business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room on Enron

It is next to impossible to learn a complex skill by observation alone. One does not learn to play the violin by watching Heifitz or the piano by observing Rubenstein.