SELF-ACTUALIZATION
“…But yield who will to their separation, my object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation, as my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one and the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done, for Heaven and the future’s sakes.”
—Robert Frost,U.S. poet (1874-1963)
[Last stanza of the poem “Two Tramps in Mud Time or, A Full-Time Interest”]
(This is a good life goal—Merging what I LOVE to do and what I HAVE to do to survive. The ultimate work is to have a full-time interest, not a life segmented into what I GET to do and what I MUST do. In order to do a job well, simply having skill and filling a need is not enough; I also need to willingly do it because I love it.)
I just wanted to start a new topic here. Ben said you know Krashen’s writings well. I have the impression that very early on he advocated a judicious use of the monitor, saying in fact that underuse of the monitor is as bad as overuse (I can cite the page and book if needed). I am wondering if he still is saying that or does the monitor have a weaker role in his theory of language acquisition?
I don’t consider myself an expert on Krashen, but It seems to me that he is mentioning the monitor less in the past few years, which is curious. We’ll have to ask him.