Showing posts with label Leonard Pitts. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Positive Expectations

The Law of Mind Action
Charles Fillmore was a thinker ahead of his time, especially in the area of what would come to be called "self-fulfilling prophecy" in modern educational theory--the idea that students would perform up to or down to their teacher's expectations. Unity students are quick to affirm: Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind. Those thoughts and expectations in which we vest our attention and energy will bear fruit, so dwelling upon that which we do not want is self-destructive behavior at best.

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