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In a remote area in the Calabasas hills, there is a stone building, an outdoor amphitheater, a tree house and a garden. Children come here each day, ages preschool through 5th grade, to follow their passion. The lessons are based on what they want to learn that day. A simple question to a teacher like, “How does a robot work?” can turn into months of instruction and international Skyping to engineer and build a working robot, just to see how it is done.
Generation Y is connected across time and space and can participate in virtual realities that their parents and grandparents could barely imagine. What’s going on in their heads? What do they want? How are they motivated?
It is my perception that the definitive guide on mental health disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV, American Psychological Association) discriminates against certain personality types and leads practitioners and the general pubic to pathologize otherwise natural, healthy behavior.