I make the connection that my main intellectual goal is to know why things are the way they are in the universe. I again want to tie this into the noetics side of things in relation to the x-files thing that I mentioned in class last week. Just as the main character wants to believe, he also wants to find the truth. Even the motto of the show is that 'the truth is out there.' After everything is said and done, I can't help but want to do something intellectual. I think that for my career in education, I will take that desire to know the truth with me wherever I go and it will engage my students to want to know the great mysteries of the universe (as it were) also. I would want them to understand that everything is related and all roads lead to the truth.
I really like a lot of what Mr. Godin had to say here. While I wouldn't agree that students are REQUIRED not to be curious in school, I will agree that some teachers and some subjects are a lot less likely to encourage and foster curiosity and questioning than others. Teachers get frustrated, they have time constraints and standards they have to teach, goals they have to meet and grades their students are required to achieve.
But I think that one of the biggest things I wish I had been taught when I was younger IS to question where this information was coming from. Is it from the company selling the item? Is it an older sibling trying to get you in trouble? Is this website or book reliable?
I think that teaching our students is paramount to getting them invested in their education, and like the text said at the end of the video, curiosity doesn't go away! Wouldn't it be amazing to have a whole new generation of students thinking about information and finding solutions? I think so!
Within the first 30 seconds of the video I had already heard something that I think will stick with me for a while. Paraphrasing - A fundamentalist is someone who hears something and chooses whether or not they want to hear it out based on what they know and believe first; a curious person hears it out then decides. I think that there are too many teachers who think they know all the right answers because they have the teachers edition text book, but when we open our minds a little there is unlimited learning to be had. If a student volunteers and idea, a teacher should hear it out and then make a decision, rather than shoot it down because "teacher knows best". I think that's a principle I would like to adopt withint my own classroom and as a person in general.
I like being curious-- I question lots of things everyday. The more curious I am the more I learn. The more learn the more I know I have more to learn. I think it is paramount for my education to stay curious and for me to learn to in-steal curiousness in others.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates
I make the connection that my main intellectual goal is to know why things are the way they are in the universe. I again want to tie this into the noetics side of things in relation to the x-files thing that I mentioned in class last week. Just as the main character wants to believe, he also wants to find the truth. Even the motto of the show is that 'the truth is out there.' After everything is said and done, I can't help but want to do something intellectual. I think that for my career in education, I will take that desire to know the truth with me wherever I go and it will engage my students to want to know the great mysteries of the universe (as it were) also. I would want them to understand that everything is related and all roads lead to the truth.
ReplyDeleteI really like a lot of what Mr. Godin had to say here. While I wouldn't agree that students are REQUIRED not to be curious in school, I will agree that some teachers and some subjects are a lot less likely to encourage and foster curiosity and questioning than others. Teachers get frustrated, they have time constraints and standards they have to teach, goals they have to meet and grades their students are required to achieve.
ReplyDeleteBut I think that one of the biggest things I wish I had been taught when I was younger IS to question where this information was coming from. Is it from the company selling the item? Is it an older sibling trying to get you in trouble? Is this website or book reliable?
I think that teaching our students is paramount to getting them invested in their education, and like the text said at the end of the video, curiosity doesn't go away! Wouldn't it be amazing to have a whole new generation of students thinking about information and finding solutions? I think so!
Within the first 30 seconds of the video I had already heard something that I think will stick with me for a while. Paraphrasing - A fundamentalist is someone who hears something and chooses whether or not they want to hear it out based on what they know and believe first; a curious person hears it out then decides. I think that there are too many teachers who think they know all the right answers because they have the teachers edition text book, but when we open our minds a little there is unlimited learning to be had. If a student volunteers and idea, a teacher should hear it out and then make a decision, rather than shoot it down because "teacher knows best". I think that's a principle I would like to adopt withint my own classroom and as a person in general.
ReplyDeleteI like being curious-- I question lots of things everyday. The more curious I am the more I learn. The more learn the more I know I have more to learn. I think it is paramount for my education to stay curious and for me to learn to in-steal curiousness in others.
ReplyDeleteTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
--*The more I learn the more I know I have more to learn--
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