"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - HL Mencken
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease" - Sir William Osler
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" The best test of a person's character is how he or she treats those with less power." - Bob Sutton
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them - well, I have others." - Groucho Marx
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." - Charles Mingus
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." - Talking Heads, Life During Wartime
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"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary. Go and learn it." - Hillel, Talmud, Shabbath 31a
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"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." - Thomas Sowell
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - HL Mencken
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"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
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"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves." - Herbie Hancock
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"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Nietzsche
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France
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"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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* Test the BMI — body-mass index, a ratio of height to weight — of students in six Arkansas schools, and send results home. Pediatricians say regular tests like this should be performed nationwide to track children at risk of becoming obese.
* Ban junk food from vending machines in California. New York City, in an administrative decision, banned hard candy, doughnuts, soda and salty chips from its vending machines.
* Require physical education programs in Louisiana schools, and encourage it in Arkansas and Mississippi. Though once a staple, such daily classes are now only required by state law in Illinois; other states let local officials decide or require exercise less often.
When are the schools going to start banning caffeine-containing beverages from vending machines?
I’m a “small government” type, but the idea that poisoining little kids (and teenagers) wtih caffeine on a regular basis has no consequences is a textbook example of denial.
Measuring kids’ BMI’s may run into all sorts of PC objections, what with Fad Advocates running amok these days.
P.E.? God I HATED that when I was a kid. Perhaps that was because of the way in which it was administered- or maybe because I was a fat kid myself. I wonder how realistic reinstituting these classes these classes will be. Too little time to teach the 3 R’s as it is.
In truth, there would be plenty of time to teach the three Rs if they weren’t so busy having to instill all the other mandated stuff into our children, such as sex ed, drug ed, diversity, sensitivity, self-esteem, etc., etc.
I hated PE as a kid too, but that may have had to do with the fact that it was always team sports, and having been skipped a grade, I was always the smallest and least coordinated of the group. I also wore glasses and have poor depth perception, and my instinctual reaction to a softball coming towards me has always been to run for cover.
If we didn’t have to worry about the litigators, kids should just get at least 30 minutes a day (weather permitting) on a good old-fashioned play ground, with the opportunities for pick up ball games, jump-rope, monkey bars, swings, merry-go-rounds, etc., which gives plenty of options for those interested in team play, and those who prefer solitary or small group play.
Of course, you can get injured on a play ground, so we can’t possibly have that….
If you can play well, they don’t let you sit on the sidelines. If only I’d had the sense to trip over my own feet on the first day… think of all the time I might have spent reading instead of playing basketball, softball, and volleyball.
I think that the bmi is overrated.some people dont fit into the image that the insurance companys have for bmi index.I am in pretty good shape and they would call me obese dispite the fact that I can bench press 240 pounds and squat 400 hundred.
4 Responses to On fighting obesity – state laws
Dr. Kranky
December 28th, 2003 at 8:12 pm
When are the schools going to start banning caffeine-containing beverages from vending machines?
I’m a “small government” type, but the idea that poisoining little kids (and teenagers) wtih caffeine on a regular basis has no consequences is a textbook example of denial.
Measuring kids’ BMI’s may run into all sorts of PC objections, what with Fad Advocates running amok these days.
P.E.? God I HATED that when I was a kid. Perhaps that was because of the way in which it was administered- or maybe because I was a fat kid myself. I wonder how realistic reinstituting these classes these classes will be. Too little time to teach the 3 R’s as it is.
LibraryGryffon
December 29th, 2003 at 12:06 pm
In truth, there would be plenty of time to teach the three Rs if they weren’t so busy having to instill all the other mandated stuff into our children, such as sex ed, drug ed, diversity, sensitivity, self-esteem, etc., etc.
I hated PE as a kid too, but that may have had to do with the fact that it was always team sports, and having been skipped a grade, I was always the smallest and least coordinated of the group. I also wore glasses and have poor depth perception, and my instinctual reaction to a softball coming towards me has always been to run for cover.
If we didn’t have to worry about the litigators, kids should just get at least 30 minutes a day (weather permitting) on a good old-fashioned play ground, with the opportunities for pick up ball games, jump-rope, monkey bars, swings, merry-go-rounds, etc., which gives plenty of options for those interested in team play, and those who prefer solitary or small group play.
Of course, you can get injured on a play ground, so we can’t possibly have that….
j.c.
December 29th, 2003 at 1:14 pm
Hey! I hated PE even though I kicked ass.
If you can play well, they don’t let you sit on the sidelines. If only I’d had the sense to trip over my own feet on the first day… think of all the time I might have spent reading instead of playing basketball, softball, and volleyball.
Don C
January 1st, 2004 at 7:10 pm
I think that the bmi is overrated.some people dont fit into the image that the insurance companys have for bmi index.I am in pretty good shape and they would call me obese dispite the fact that I can bench press 240 pounds and squat 400 hundred.