doctor disease redux

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 05:00 PM 5/25/01 +1000, Joanna S. wrote, inter alia:
>Great stuff.  It does seem true that lack of docility can be a sign of 
>intelligence.  And teaching/training/interacting methods have an enormous 
>influence on results. ...Dog story alert... My young French shepherd was 
>bright, touchy, domineering and hyperactive; and a total failure in puppy 
>classes, which were taught in the old coercive style.  He spent most of his 
>time misbehaving (call it experimenting with ways of getting desired 
>responses from the rest of us). After a couple of sessions of this I pulled 

Gee, outsmarting everyone to get what I want.  What a great story extolling
the virtues of individual entrepreneurship US style!  Are you aware that
this listserv is Left-Business-Observer-talk rather than
Capitalism-Unrepented-dot-com?

wojtek