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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, as an adult, most people (and employers) do not care AT ALL where you went to pre-k. And no one, outside of a very small circle in the DC vacinity, even know Beauvoir exists.  So this game of establishing exactly "how esteemed" a lower elementary school is...well, it's kind of nauseating.  The idea that your experience in the first grade is going to set the tone for your entire life of learning, is a little reaching. [/quote]

Spoken with the confidence of the ignorant.  Neuropsychology continues to find more and more evidence that Aristotle's quote,"Give me a child until he is seven, and I will show you the man," is correct.   About 80% of the neural wiring gets laid down between birth to 7.  So, yes, propensities for learning and the tone for your entire life is largely set by 2nd grade.  There is the remaining 20% that is not complete until late adolescence for women, late 20s for men.  There is also a degree of neuroplasticity that exists throughout life, but it is limited, despite Daniel Amen's inflated claims to the contrary.   So, yeah, early childhood is pretty important.

The amount of energy you're investing in how "nauseating" this "game" is suggests you're somewhat unbalanced yourself.  Why should you care?  It's an anonymous forum that contains some of the excrescence of DC.  Why do you care so much what others think or believe? [/quote]

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