Sense and Nonsense

Tim Lambert's blog "Right in Texas" carries up to date news and opinion on candidates and issues facing Home Schooling in Texas. In addition, there is a Texas Home School Coalition Political Action Committee which accepts political donations to preserve and promote Home Schooling in Texas.

A Home School History Lesson

Tim Lambert

President of the Texas Home School Coalition

THSC Handbook for Texas Home Schoolers ©

Home education continues to grow by leaps and bounds not only in Texas, but also all over the country. Many estimate that the number of home schooling families is increasing by 15 percent per year. Nationally, some put the number of home educators at around one million. In Texas, there are between 75,000 and 100,000 families home educating. As more and more people make the ultimate choice in education, the advocates for this educational alternative multiply.

Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.

Sometimes doctors (or family members) refer patients or loved ones to therapy to fix something they -- the doctor or family member, that is -- consider a problem. The motivation for therapy is on the part of the referring party, not the client/patient him- or herself.

To this I respond: Get real!

You cannot cure someone who's indifferent to a "cure." If he's indifferent, then the only way to cure him is without his participation (other than minimal cooperation, such as showing up).This will work with medical conditions, but not with mental or emotional ones. The person can stand there passively while you treat him medically, but he cannot solve his emotional problems unless he thinks, and unless he is willing to challenge and change his errors in thinking.

It looks like the more a person knows about time, the less likely they are to be able to answer the question. Never ask an expert anything. Keep it simple and just know in your heart that the time is NOW forever.

But just in case you really want to know, here is what the experts have to say:

• Atomic Time , with the unit of duration the Systeme International (SI) second defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of cesium 133. TAI is the International Atomic Time scale, a statistical timescale based on a large number of atomic clocks.
• Universal Time (UT) is counted from 0 hours at midnight, with unit of duration the mean solar day, defined to be as uniform as possible despite variations in the rotation of the Earth.
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