While we should encourage basic ability to communicate in at least one other language, it is time for this country to adopt English as the language for all official communication.
If they wish, even late-comers can cultivate the values that count: "work, thrift, honesty, patience, tenacity". How best to encourage that ability and self-confidence, how to nurture cultural transformation and self-empowerment, remains to be decided.
According to Ambalu, the clinical psychotherapist, even the playful teasing among siblings can encourage our ability to build connections and relationships with other peers.
In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education".
"It was meant to help us move to a more creative economy by encouraging critical abilities", he says, "but it has had the unexpected consequence of opening up the minds of the young generation".
With whiteboards for each group, every student can share perspective, encouraging their ability to work as a team.
Before any wide use of a prediction rule can be encouraged, its ability to produce accurate predictions for patients from different but plausibly related populations ('transportability') needs to be assessed (Justice et al, 1999).
To encourage her musical ability, her 70-year-old music teacher invited her to sit in with his string quartet, which was made up of his contemporaries.
Predictably, this occupation is an all-boys club, yet Aisholpan's parents, as enlightened as any couple in Park Slope, encourage her natural ability.
Simple group dances will encourage the participants' ability to remember steps and sequences, movement games will improve mood and vitality and improvisational dance movement will foster imagination, creativity and personal expression [ 17, 26].
In contrast, praising children's inherent abilities encourages them to adopt fixed-ability frameworks.
