Another Doppleganger? And Radical New Teaching Styles?
So
emosnail provided me with another doppleganger alert. Not only does this dude look like this (reference pic of me), was also sited at a Model United Nations Conference where the NAUMUN Kidz unanomously voted that we are twin, and in a final act of oddness he ends up "seducing" a girl that I had a hard, hard as crush on in university. Too creepy.
On the education front these two NPR articles got me think really hard (Here is ONE and TWO). Not only would they seem to match up to my imprefect recollection of my own childhood/education but they would do a lot to explain trends that we are seen in the Modern American Society and even some decidedly unscientific observations in Korea.
An overconcern for safety and formulaic appoarch to achievement might have caused downward trends that we seen in achievement at school and elsewhere as it erodes a childs capacity to self regulate, interact in a group, and appoarch unstructured situations. If we take these studys to be truth then I would expect a higher instance of this trend in Korea, where concerns for safety and achievement is inconcievable outside structured activities (as I write this a student runs down the hall, knocking over a plant and breaking the vase. He is currently being scolded in Korean down the hall). I want to see more about this research, this is one of those articles/studies that seems to help things make sense.
At school, but no classes today or tomorrow. Take care of your shoes.