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Sir Ken Robinson speaks about how our education system strips students of their creativity. It teaches us to not risk ever being wrong. "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will not come up with anything original." The hierarchy of educational importance begins with math and science and ends with the arts. The system was born of the Industrial Revolution pragmatically. We're in post-Industrial Revolution times. Academic inflation is necessitating that one gets a MA for a good job.

This makes me think back to the other day in class when Dr. Wesch brought up excellent questions. Who decided in 16 weeks is enough time to be educated in a certain subject? We cram so much information into such a short amount of time. Even the way we are taught to learn is sometimes misguiding. Ken Robinson makes a great point when he states the following: "All children are born artists...either we grow into it or we grow out of it or rather we get educated out of it."

A great summary of the book I read for my research. Wesch suggested and even lent me the book, it's fantastic. I'm about halfway through, luckily for me the first two chapters got me what I needed. Hopefully my summary will be as good!

A very interesting perspective... Certainly emphasizes the importance of media (more specifically the Internet) in our lives, but I think it's a bit of stretch to say we're losing our minds to the internet.

Pretty interesting to see how a new medium is effecting another.

When literally translated from Sanskrit, Navratri means nine nights. Navratri in India is one of the most auspicious festival, celebrated with vim and brio. This festival begins on the first day of the Hindu month of Ashwin, and culminates in the ninth day, preceding Dussera.

We nurture many reminiscences that still stay put fresh in our minds which we spent during the time of our school or university life. We had many friends during those days but some of them remained with us while some left.