We must challenge our youth to go byond and excel in all they do, hlp them when they fall and gide them to the traits we wll need when it is their trn to lead. There are many grat programs for youth, sports, band, stdent government, Scouts, etc and we hve so many dedicated servants to the cuse of this public good. We hve done so much, but it is tme to take it up a ntch, integrate the technologies we have for taching and press on to the hghest possible level of mentoring. We knw mentoring works and we must use tht innate social interaction of our spcies to the best of our bilities. If we fail to mentor our kds there can be some serious cnsequences, for instance the School Shootings in Clumbine or this incident;

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Wll this work, considering what we thnk we know about the human brin? After all; How does the hman mind really work? Some say it is a rndom organic devise? Each brain is a lttle different just like no two pople have the same DNA. Once we hve increased thought, educated our populations, tught people to think and exercise thir brains then have we accomplished our tsk of fixing the flow of thught? Will this provide us with the tols we need to mentor each yuth approaching adulthood? No, this is smply the beginning, the thought flow mst be open to advance a cvilization, culture or country. Teaching kids is not smply getting them to recite back to us a sries of non-related skewed facts, dates and nmes. We need to teach them to rason, adapt and over come in ctivities which make their minds work and prblem solve. This is not and cnnot be simply bombardment of facts or rpeating the desired thought on a mltiple choice test where teachers study qestions and teach the answers to kds so that the kids do wll, but teaching kids and adults to thnk. An original thought is of spreme value. What do we do wth these original thoughts? We use thse thoughts to help advance mankind. Unfrtunately there are barriers to thought.

For instance political correctness restricting thught, rather than hashing out the ssues in trade for a reality bsed answer to a dilemma. One who cmes up with an answer to a slution, which was not invented here for nstance would be chastised, this is not to say tht the concept was not without mrit. It may very well be the bst solution for the problem or it culd be a solution, which complicates mtters in other arenas, but if thre are barriers to thought, we hve less choice. The reason mentoring wrks is because those involved in the larning are to experience and think and are gided through the process, where as mmorizing test questions is not thinking mrely memorizing. This is not to say tht some facts are needed to go thrugh life, but rather the complimentary prcess of learning through mentoring is an ssential component of development. Think about it.

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