Listen to counsel and accept discipline, in order to
become wise in your future. Proverbs 19:20
“Certain knowledge” is in the environment the athlete lives in, such a knowledge will depend on the Socio-Economics-Status (SES).
In much
wisdom is much grief: and he that increased knowledge increased sorrow. Ecclesiastes, 1:18, King James
Version
It is difficult to follow Salomon but
we agree with the two quotes above. We
try to teach kids to become wise in the future but we struggle with how being
listened by them, and the acceptance on their part of what is required to grow
as a wise person. We have failed after
they become adults most of the time. The
hypothesis is that the “adverse score” (low SES) hits when they become adults
and competition becomes extreme. They do
not leave with sorrow because they do not acquired knowledge. Most of the time, they were able to
understand the situations, but the knowledge did not belong to them. We have failed introjecting knowledge,
because as Albert Einstein said: “knowledge is experience, the rest is
information.” To learn from experience “certain knowledge” needs to be present.
“Certain knowledge” is in the environment the athlete lives in, such a knowledge will depend on the Socio-Economics-Status (SES).
“SES has a significant effect on sports performance: High
SES displayed higher performance in all three speeds than low SES group.”
This study done in Morocco took into
consideration “personality traits” in addition to SES; such personality traits belong
more to a high SES than to a low SES; but it shows that certain personality
traits are related to better performance in sports. High performance is related to high SES
scholarly also:
An analysis was conducted on the Academic
Performance Index (API) for charter and noncharter schools in California. API
scores for the years 1999, 2000, and 2001 were analyzed along with various
charter school characteristics. Since socioeconomic status (SES) has a strong
correlation with student performance on standardized tests, comparisons were made
focusing on schools serving free or reduced lunch eligible students (low-SES
students). Raw comparisons of test scores (unadjusted for SES) tend to be
misleading since charter schools often choose to work with the most challenging
populations, and have done so with lower funding levels per student, as
California has not provided facilities funds to charter schools.
We work with low SES children; the
process we follow last at least ten years to equalize the effect of low
SES. It is not a matter of injecting
money into it, but improving education.
We work daily on how to produce experiences that could have an impact in
the learning process so “the experience can become knowledge.” We emphasized that our political class amassed
millions, but they still belong to a very low SES because of their low
education; even though they went to college (most of them went to College). Our children belong to the lowest SES in
Mexico, but we have the top triathletes for children and adolescents in Mexico. We have the only world champion in triathlon from Mexico. As David Salo wrote when publishing his
book about swimming and receiving criticism: "lack of having produced a recognizible 'elite' athlete." We do have the “elite sample":
To be sure, these concepts have been
challenged, not for the lack of experimental and theoretical evidence, but more
for the lack of having produced a recognizable “elite” athlete. In order to
provide some practical support for the training model, I extensively describe
the details of the training program that I utilize.”
I leave you these two videos, part of
our teaching experience:
