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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Thought of the Day
"Fortune favours the brave,
as Niccolò Machiavelli was fond of saying."
The Gnome, reflecting on economic growth.
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Of all the elements, you are most like Tungsten. You scored 59 Mass, 20 Electronegativity, 53 Metal, and 10 Radioactivity! |
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You may buy into the values of society, but you just can't seem to fit into it. You've always been a bit variable in your oxidation states. On the bright side you can withstand extremely high-energy people and environments just as easily as you can survive low-energy ones. You might do comparatively well hanging out with Phosphorus people as a result. In fact, you are probably the best-suited person to try to shape their efforts into something constructive... unfortunately, that would require your actively involving yourself with others, which you are generally loathe to do. The ideal job for you would be working within a nuclear power plant... alone. |
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3 Comments:
I wouldn't. Start, that is. Two reasons: every school in which I've taught in Singapore claims to already provide an holistic education. So since this has been documented it's difficult to see how you could convince the folks who think they do (provide said education) that they don't. Secondly, the word (holistic) has been emptied of any possible meaning so has no interest for me. I think it's more useful to start with words that, for oneself, might still have some connection with the real world.
Thus my project might be something like: suppose you had to be genuinely interesting in the classroom for more than the percentage that just works out that way from pure luck. How might you attempt this?
Must be grasping at the last straws that broke the camel's back, said camel being the horse designed by a committee, just to mix the metaphors up a bit.
If you want to be genuinely interesting in the classroom, you would probably have to start with forcing a certain kind of mental discomfort (what they call cognitive disjunction), followed by opportunities to alleviate that disjunction through reflective processes, and finally a reasoned account of that process and its output. It's not easy. Food for thought there, Mr Connor.
And highly nutritious it is. Challenging, in more ways than one!
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