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Michael Gurian is an American author and social philosopher. He works as a marriage and family counselor and corporate consultant. He has published twenty-eight books, several of which were New York Times bestsellers. He is considered, along with Leonard Sax, as one of the major proponents of the post-modern "single-sex academic classes" movement.

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Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

Boys, Differently, Girl, Teacher, Teachers, Trained

Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers.

Attachment, Body, Care, Children, Two

Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.

Children, Crucial, Home, Homes, Raise, Two

The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Boys, Man, Meet, Men, Relationship, Self Worth

Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

Becoming, Brain, Classrooms, Girl, Increasingly

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

Boys, Contact, Men, Tired, Young, Youth

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

Education, Generation, Generations, Ifs, Men, Women

Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.

Caught, Differences, Kids, Nature

Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys

Boys, Children, Defective, Environments, Needs, Specific

As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. ' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.

Appears, Boys, Fate, Jung, Practice, Spiritual

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

Boys, Needs, Service, Succeed, Want

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.

Emotional, Jed, Men, Writing

Without fathers you would have no civilization.

Civilization, Father, Fathers

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are. '

Boys, Culture, Fathers Day, Hopefully, Men, Moment

Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in relation to this stress is ultimately to help the child learn to manage his or her own stress wisely. In accomplishing this, the teacher mentors higher academic learning by removing distracting stress, and teaches valuable life-survival skills.

Child, Children, Heal, Jobs, Skills, Teacher

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

Boys, Compassion, Men, Quickest, Way

A lot of women will be sort of 'competitive like a guy' in the workplace, but then when they go home, they realize that's not fully authentic for them. They would like to have a more expansive or more authentic relationship in the workplace around competition.

Competition, Fully, Guy, Home, Like, Realize

The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy's character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys' characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self.

Boys, Character, Exhorts, Independent, Models, Peer

We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons

Demons, Expect, Games, Giving, Space, Supervision

The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.

Certain, Children, Hurt, Individual, Thinking, Undernourish