It occurs to me, as I look around my classroom, that more and more of the students I see have too much on their plate. Between; homework, social lives, work, extra-curricular activities, family, community, cognitive development, civic expectations, and just plain growing-up these kids are taxed to the max.
In our high-speed/high-tech world is society pushing our future generation into their current problem...an inability to move forward because of too many choices in front of them?
I urge you to watch the video on 'The Paradox of Choice" from Barry Schwartz. I heard of this video through Jim Burke, our eMints/Smartboard technology teacher. It gave me pause to realize just how much we have to choose from in our lives and how much less time & responsibility we actually give to 'ourselves'...to grow & understand. Quite a catch 22.
It makes me want to simplify EVERYTHING in my life: going back to the horse & buggy, kill my television, throw away all of the things that take up time that I could be discovering myself and growing my sense of well-being.
Of course then I wouldn't be writing in this blog now would I...speaking of which ~good bye!
......for now = )
Thursday, December 13, 2007
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