So, spent the first hour of class trying to name a boring pie chart while the Professor looked for a projector. Wasn’t a waste, but I probably should have gotten breakfast and came to class slightly late. After the professor found the projector we did watch a truly interesting video by Sir Ken Robinson, where he discussed our archaic education system.
I do think it was an interesting commentary about how people don’t discover what they are actually good at or love to do, causing a life crisis. Talent is buried deep and education isn’t designed for finding talent. He equates our current education system to fast-food. Standardized, and of reasonable quality, but impersonal, and completely lacking in innovation.
I also found the segment of him talking about removing tonsils being in fashion way back when, and no longer, and equating it to the ADHD phenomenon. I can attest to that as a first grader, I was given A.D.D. drugs cause my first grade teacher said I needed to them. Even though I never felt the drugs do anything, I was taking this damn medication all the way up till middle school. Certainly the message that there was something wrong with me didn’t do my self-esteem any favors, and in fact to this day, it still pretty low.
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