Oak Island Mystery...ouuuu

Preservation is very important during excavation and studies underground.. in the case of Oak Island, it seems to me that we have demolished the land and any clues that we would find valuable and prominent to finding the mystery that people have been losing their minds for... I think that if we saved some of the work for later on in life when we have more advanced technologoy, we would not be struggling so frantically. It's kind of ridiculous. Once we start panicing and getting frusterated, ect... it takes away from the concentration and focus... usually when we think to hard on something, we lead ourselvse so far off the path that we originally came from. Some times first instincts are the right ones... like.. for example... clay. we can use a little water to re-dampen it when it gets dry, but after molding it to much the clay just falls apart. I beleive that we've done so much digging and drilling that we'll drown the island before we find the "treasure".

Valentines Day

valentines day... valentines day... to me means...
not a whole lot, it's kind of a cute holiday... kind of a money-making, hallmark holiday.
That guy is bathing in $100 bills!!! i bet he's wiping his ass with them too...
i think cute is the best way to describe it: you like it... but it's nothing extraordinary
in fact it doesn't even serve a useful purpose
sure it's about love, and all the hokie-pokie that comes along with that..
but basically, they're selling us bullshit,
and we're buying it.
not only this we're giving it to our
we've invented a nationwide celebration called materialism

i do like valentines day though.. i liked getting the little candies and cards in grade school, and hey wait a minute, we're still doing candy grams in highschool...
yep. didnt get too many though ...
that's alright with me.
yep. that's okay. once we reach certain ages we get different types of valentines.

Dr. Ken Robinson

-educated out of creativity
-Shakespeare in someones English class
-must try harder
-winners = produce university professors
-live in their head -body transport for their heads
-intelligence is distinct
-gift of human imagination
-careful that we use this gift wisely
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-creativity as important as literacy and numerousy
-revolution of type of living, how we related to each other
-misconception that you're creative or not
-confident in imagination when young -ten years later we've lost that confidence



Agreed. When children are talented in certain areas, they need to express their skills and use their abilities to the utmost extent. We've stopped thinking for ourselves... our work is made up of nothing but what is asked for. We're not educated to think outside the box, we're educated into essays and our education is already in a template for us.

Creativity is a long, ever changing road in the education system that has been blocked
off and bordered for too long. Sir Ken Robinson gives a few examples of children being creative and confident. One example is a little boy in a school play that messes up his lines. He makes up his lines when it's his turn to talk, despite the fact that he knows he isn't right. Children are confident in themselves to go through life and make mistakes.. and ten years later we feel this peer pressure that has been forced into our brains ... that a mistake is the worse thing you can make in life. If we keep living this way...we're not going to get too far

One aspect of Sir Ken's speech which I really enjoyed was when he mentions a common misconception... that you're either creative or not. This is so wrong! Everyone has their own style and way of using their creativity.
Maybe Amy can't sketch an amazing portrait but she can sure as hell design a pair of jeans! Maybe photography isn't Josh's thing but he can really organize his room creative and neat.
Everyone has creativity... it is shown through different things. "Intelligence is distinct."

One more note.. Sir Ken Robinson does a great job addressing important issues from his perspective. He uses his own stature with knowledge, humor, and understanding. We know that Sir Ken Robinson is a University Professor.. but he doesn't want the education system to produce 1000 of him... he really expresses that each person has their own distinct intelligence.