On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 21:44:41 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:


I had got a puppy, long ago, and at the time was riding a motorcycle,
perhaps 10,000 miles per year or more, with 3 to 6 hour trips not being
uncommon. I knew I needed my dog to be comfortable riding with me, on the
bike, or in the car.

How does a dog ride a bike? How does it keep from being thrown off?

As a recent education graduate, I used positive reinforcement
extensively....

I infer from that statement that you were taught to "use positive
redinforcement extensively."

Is that at least inpart responsible for the outrageous grade inflation
we see in the schools, including "elite" colleges?

As a college prof, I had many students who could not write
grammatical Egnlish. When I corected their errors, they protested
that their teachers had always told them there were good writers.

Naturally, they preferred to believe they were good writers, and that
I was being unfair to them. The teachers who lied to them, to "give
them positive reinforcement" did NOT do them any favors.

vince norris