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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
I'm at work but I think this is the right video
It has to do with the discussion we were having about how intelligence is treated in schools, and also this guy is hilarious and makes a lot of good points
I'm sure a number of people have already seen it but if not get to it
I'm just gonna keep adding quotes but really watch this thing
I'm at work but I think this is the right video
It has to do with the discussion we were having about how intelligence is treated in schools, and also this guy is hilarious and makes a lot of good points
I'm sure a number of people have already seen it but if not get to it
If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that's been on parade for the past four days, what the world will look like in five years' time. And yet we're meant to be educating them for it.
Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong.
And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.
And the result is, we are educating people out of their creative capacities.
I'm just gonna keep adding quotes but really watch this thing
But something strikes you when you move to America and when you travel around the world: every education system on earth has the same heirarchy of subjects. Every one, doesn't matter where you go, you'd think it would be otherwise but it isn't. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on earth.
And in pretty much every system too, there's a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are nomally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance. There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not? I think this is rather important. I think maths is very important but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they're allowed to, we all do. We all have bodies, don't we? Did I miss a meeting?
Truthfully what happens is, as children grow up we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. And then we focus on their heads. And slightly to one side.
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Wut?
Seriously?
way way
back when in school!
I didn't realize Micheal Moriarty had gotten syndicated.
I feel at home already.
Face Twit Rav Gram
I now want a iPhone; someone, please correct this misbehavior on my part.
I'm aware he brings shame upon your family. But he's so amusing in a scary crazy kinda way.
Well it depends. Do you use your mobile phone for calling people?
If so, an iPhone isn't for you!
Face Twit Rav Gram
yeah then you need an iPad
It has been a very rainy summer.
On the other hand it is cooler here than in Seattle... so I'll take it.
Which one?
Other phones do flash.
Do iPhones do flash yet?
Get a different phone.
Heart attack, it happens often to people his age.
His Alzheimers is getting worse.
He's getting old and it's kinda starting to go.
There were like eight unlocked alterna-[chat]s the other day.
I do, occasionally, make calls to and receive calls from various people.
fuck Sweet Savage
they're fucking terrible
whoever put them on should be ashamed for thinking these shitebags are an appropriate replacement for Heaven and Hell
Face Twit Rav Gram
I'm feeling a porno in this...
3 girls
pissing
lemonade
cups
Everything is right there.
The End of the World...
I don't know, it's just the part where she's all talking about how world blew up and no one cared and then he takes her back to her own time.
Very emotional.
I know! It's actually tolerable out today. It's currently 79F!
If you find them interesting you should really watch the video
I know it's 20 minutes long but I swear it will fly by. The guy is also very funny and entertaining which makes it not just an interesting video but a fun one.
I thought you were against Japanese culture.
That was a strong episode for so early in the series. It's not amongst my favorites, but it's the one that kept me watching long enough to become a fan.
Edit: In reference to the OP, not Jeeps' creepy porno.
I'm saddened that I was second, but happy I wasn't third.
Whatafuckin Wiener.
Hey man. I made it a hat trick. Without me, it'd just be a "Grrr. Beat'd" post!
I dislike your city. This may be because my idiot brother decided it would be a good idea to fly to that airport instead of one closer.
I spent 12 hours driving to, and collecting him, from the airport. This was ridiculous in the extreme.
Fortunately, on the return trip (after dropping him off so he can fly home), I detoured and spent some time with a friend I haven't had a chance to see in some time.
I am, sort of. I won't conflate the whole of their culture with anime. The anime aspect of the culture has an inescapable gross pedo vibe though.
Not like the porno I'm ripping right now, which tells the heartwarming story of a young man who starts stalking the really hot older dude who lives across from him and then they end up having really great sex eventually.
I ROLL DOWN MY WINDOW AND TELL THEM HOW THEY MUST SELL THE LEMONADE.