Barry Smith, Director
Mental Health and youth advocate, Barry Smith has worked with children and young people that have faced barriers for youth for over 20 years. He graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a BA. Barry is the President of CAGE Training & Resources Inc., and the founder of youthlearning.ca. CAGE Training & Resources Inc. produces educational materials and affective learning solutions for all types of organizations, parents and caregivers. CAGE Training & Resources Inc. is dedicated to enhancing the potential in children by encouraging an understanding and a love for education and life. Barry has a track record of creating strength-based programs that allow children to reach their full potential. He is a published author and a popular speaker to professionals who work with children and youth.
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Walter is the originator of the theory and practice of optologics. Optologics is based on an is an objective theory of intelligence. It is used to design affective learning systems where everyone will be successful as opposed to competitive education which is based education based on various subjective concepts of intelligence where there has to be winners and losers. Competitive education is education is devastating for those who end up on the wrong side of the proverbial bell curve. It destroys initiative . This is especially true for children and youth who have not reached the maturity to fully comprehend the nature of competitionfor the large majority of students because it does not reflect the natural optological learning process. Competitive learning is detrimental to the holistic development of knowledge and the psychological health of immature children and youth.
Affective learning is motivated by natural interest in learning new things and not by competition. It does incorporate competition as an aspect of human nature, but is not a factor in educational assessment. An affective learning classroom would be a children's / youth workplace where academics are integrated into an experiential curriculum.
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