remember the bit at the beginning where the teachers get the classes
neither is suited to. In the rest of the film I can't get over how
impossible the setting is in English terms as our undergrads are
nowhere near as sophisticated as these 'schoolies' (neither am I).
The best strategy on creativity I ever found was to let people do
their own thing and find ways to mark that with them. Film was often
the chosen medium. I'm both overbearingly serious and very shy, so my
icebreaker usually involved taking the rise out of this as a self-
aware dork.
On Mar 19, 10:44 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll track down The Wave. I never quite get to despise students James
> - I'm sick of seeing them taking on mortgages in order to clutch
> increasingly worthless qualifications.
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> On Mar 17, 1:01 am, James Lynch <ashkas...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 6:33 AM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This is true rigs - but the deeper point on this is about how we
> > > maintain a more collective form of madness and lack the means to
> > > question it without massive resistance. I forget most of Freud these
> > > days James, though I'm looking at Weber again. I rather like the idea
> > > of looking at ourselves as Jared Diamond suggests in terms of
> > > societies that went barking into ecocide.
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> > The hilarity just struck me when considering the Romans, we don't seem
> > to have things figured much better. Where is the waste exchange
> > economy? I agree, resource consumption is a good variable to watch-
> > but then I have lately been translating everything from garbage to
> > crime and poverty with one variable resulting from mismanagement:
> > Waste.
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> > > I'm not really a tree
> > > hugger (though have been known to hug trees), but feel we have to find
> > > ways to admit we've got most things upside down.
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> > Several times I've communed with a hand on one, but I've personally
> > taken down several more. Kids make some sense when asking "why." If we
> > took time to inspect the answers we might find things resemble a
> > science, of the dark ages..
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> > > On the personal
> > > paranoid side James, I now find myself believing very little outside
> > > of science in the guise of public argument and academic trivia. I've
> > > long believed creativity is killed stone dead by 'smiling ignorance'
> > > and daft ideas like brainstorming - because the critical edge needs to
> > > be sharp and stun the ideological trance.
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> > Very much in agreement, but tact is important to get them decoupling
> > their enthusiasm from conditioning without putting them into a
> > post-traumatic state. Leave enough slack for the trauma to his them
> > around bedtime! :D I say stuff like this to my fiancee about her
> > students to lighten things up a little. It would be neat to take
> > something like brainstorming and collect a few strategic examples of
> > problem solving methods from different fields, there's gotta be
> > something out there to ignite a few synapses. If you get flak from the
> > supers chide them on the lack of dynamic teachers in the profession
> > who can get through to kids and the impacts on society, be sure to
> > phrase it in a way that makes the super look good of course. ;-) LOL
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> > Somewhat unrelated, there is a neat German movie (subtitled not
> > dubbed) called The Wave you might like, it's one of those simple
> > concept movies tying psychology to social movements baring the dark
> > and potentially sinister and is between a teacher and his students.
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> > > I find myself a proponent of de-schooling after so much time in
> > > education. Apple is now 'worth more' (in market capitalisation) than
> > > the whole of US retail. I don't like being retailed and would be
> > > happy to see the shops go in favour of more direct sales. What we
> > > miss is stuff like this means we are finding new efficiencies, but
> > > retain the same old ideas on what jobs are for. Fear not, the
> > > private sector cavalry will ride in with new products and services -
> > > but where are they? My guess is this is all to do with our easy
> > > acceptance of positive gloss and lack of ability to take
> > > responsibility for new ways of living. This is so bad we 'believe'
> > > that global competition will do something other than put us all on
> > > Chinese wages and conditions.
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> > I think the plan was for global economy to stabilize around the year
> > 2050, but then again I never caught wind of a Plan A before the B. I'm
> > confident you would despise me in the classroom due to learning and
> > study habits, I once had an Indian algebra teacher chanting the rule
> > of not dividing by zero for a solid four minutes, he had the whole
> > class join in. :/
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> > > On Mar 15, 6:12 am, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >> Sociopaths exist in all socio-economic groups.
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> > >> On Mar 14, 9:32 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >> > I particularly like the research on investment CEOs that shows they
> > >> > over-rate their abilities and actually produce 'negative alpha' rather
> > >> > than competent investment decisions - these being the very people who
> > >> > threaten to go away if we restrict their 'earnings'. The quick
> > >> > portrait of Steve Jobs also demonstrates a main theme of the 'rich are
> > >> > mean' in his selfish world in which rules do not apply to him. One
> > >> > wonders whether Apple might be an American manufacturer (and so on) if
> > >> > we had proper economic rules that stop chancers like him doing their
> > >> > immoral stuff?
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> > >> > On Mar 14, 2:23 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >> > >http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=opting-out-of-overop...
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> > >> > > This is an interesting little story covering some of the research
> > >> > > demonstrating people are over-optimistic and this has dangerous
> > >> > > outcomes. I winder if this is how the peculiar views on economics
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