Thursday, March 22, 2012

Socratic Notes

  • Play <or any sort of leisure time> is needed for anybody
    • Lets creativity and freedom flow
    • Beneificial in terms of sociability and creativity down the road
  • Too much structure is dangerous
    • Mostly influenced by what the future outcome may result in
    • Too many restrictions  will destroy later life
    • Keep to a minimal, guidelines would be best
  • Break old habits
    • Keep a straight mind
    • Stand strong
    • Don't fear failure or rejection
1) Considering how these concepts have been introduced, that thought where grades no longer matter is when the individual can truely learn. That free-roaming learning without that constant nagging of that "OMGBBQSAUCE! This is going to be GRADED! I must make sure I get an A+++++!!!! ksdhfvaencv" type crap which usully ends in half hearted work that still gets that stupid grade giving the student a false sense of "intelligence".

2) Bringing these concepts to help my performance on the AP exam is just to go out and look for relative subjects for the AP exam that interest me. As weird as it may sound, structured learning does not always have to be detrimental to anybody. If anything, I'll just need to find my hurdles and prepare ways I can get pass them with the limitations that I have in the structure of the AP exam itself while still maintaining the actual subject focus in mind.

3) The setting of guidelines and the usage of creative ways to collaborate with others can be extremely beneficial. Of course, some structure is needed to keep it from being too chaotic, but perhaps maybe even introduce a game of some sort to encourage the creative learning to enhance that network.