Erich Engelhardt's Page

About Me/Us:

I am always looking at life with a smile. I am a funny, honest, happy guy, who lives life to the fullest! I am a Doctoral student at Boston University and I also work full time in the social services field.
I believe that human potential is limited most effectively through our own false beliefs about our capabilities.I have personally witnessed many amazing transformations of circumstance that were instigated primarily through transforming individual perceptions. I've witnessed drug addict, criminals become stalwart upstanding members of communities, brain injured individuals transform themselves through education, and traumatized individuals heal and flourish through practicing forgiveness. Education is the key I believe. Lev Vygotsky believed that education actually precedes development, so ergo, education can re-develop our beliefs, perceptions, and potential at anytime, if we so choose.
I moved to Boston, Massachusetts a year and a half ago from California, to study these issues and I am delighted to be in such an academic mecca.I love using my own learning and academic curiosity to help others.

Relationship Status:

Engaged

Movies

The Princess Bride
Always Outnumbered Always Outgunned
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Slumdog Millionaire

Television

The United States of Tara
Chuck
30 Rock

Music

Ray Charles
Jack Johnson
U2
The Mother Hips

Books

The Alchemist by: Paulo Coelho
Thought and Language by: Lev Vygotsky
The Feast of All Saints by: Anne Rice
The Stand by: Stephen King

Heroes

Lev Vygotsky
William James
My Father