Guess who got their id card today? Now it's official. I owe Touro some money.....I better get to work now..
Scenario #1
Student: When will we ever have to use this stuff?
Teacher: Never, you should be content in the idea that everything we do in this class is pointless and carries no relevancy towards what you plan to do in life. Your best bet is to drop out and find someone that's willing to hire someone with your limited abilities and start contributing towards social security so that people that have taken the time to learn something will have something to retire on.
Scenario #2
Student: When will we ever have to use this stuff?
Teacher: Unless your going to be a teacher or continue going to school, never. However, what this class does for you is not limited to formulas and theorems, it is a chance for you to train yourself in the art of learning. The ability to learn is innate and is something that has to be developed. If you are content with what you've aquired and the rate at which you aquired it then there's nothing left to be said. But, if your curious about testing the limits of your ability to absorb, analyze, organize, and hypothesize, then let's see what today's lesson is.
Scenario #3
Student: When will we ever have to use this stuff?
Teacher: What stuff?
You tell me Scenario 4...........
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
How do you tell when it's been a while since you've been on a certain site? When you can't remember the password to the site.
This has been a very busy month. A wedding, a funeral, rehab, powerschool,.....but enough of that. What shall we talk about?
I can't remember how old I was, but I was able to sit on my grandmothers lap. We were attending a funeral and I was voicing my opinion on my mandatory attendance of a function where I wasn't socially related to the guest of honor. In fact, the deceased wasn't even directly related.
I quickly found out that my opinion should never be spoken aloud. Not while an elder still had the ability to "lay" hands on me. I also had the opportunity to hear my grandmother say something that has stayed with me up to this day. She said that we're not here for the dead. The dead doesn't care if we show up to these things. We're here for the living. All these people around us noticed that we showed up. It's out of respect for the living people that we attend, not the dead.
It may not seem like much but that exchange has gone a long way to affect my perspective on things. There are many ways to see a situation. Is graduation for the graduate, or is it for all those who have invested into the student? Is a wedding for the bride and groom, or is it for the friends and family that saw the inevitability of a union?
This has been a very busy month. A wedding, a funeral, rehab, powerschool,.....but enough of that. What shall we talk about?
I can't remember how old I was, but I was able to sit on my grandmothers lap. We were attending a funeral and I was voicing my opinion on my mandatory attendance of a function where I wasn't socially related to the guest of honor. In fact, the deceased wasn't even directly related.
I quickly found out that my opinion should never be spoken aloud. Not while an elder still had the ability to "lay" hands on me. I also had the opportunity to hear my grandmother say something that has stayed with me up to this day. She said that we're not here for the dead. The dead doesn't care if we show up to these things. We're here for the living. All these people around us noticed that we showed up. It's out of respect for the living people that we attend, not the dead.
It may not seem like much but that exchange has gone a long way to affect my perspective on things. There are many ways to see a situation. Is graduation for the graduate, or is it for all those who have invested into the student? Is a wedding for the bride and groom, or is it for the friends and family that saw the inevitability of a union?
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