2 Million Minutes [documentary]
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This is some sobering reality.... Not looking so good guys. Explains a lot to me which I kinda already knew (confirmed here regularly) , but wow....just wow....
times are a changing...(and how)
trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_QENuOYL8&hl=en
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"Regardless of nationality, as soon as a student completes the 8th grade, the clock starts ticking. From that very moment the child has approximately -
…Two Million Minutes until high school graduation…Two Million Minutes to build their intellectual foundation…Two Million Minutes to prepare for college and ultimately career…Two Million Minutes to go from a teenager to an adult
How a student spends their Two Million Minutes - in class, at home studying, playing sports, working, sleeping, socializing or just goofing off -- will affect their economic prospects for the rest of their lives.
http://www.2mminutes.com/about.html
How do most American high school students spend this time? What about students in the rest of the world? How do family, friends and society influence a student's choices for time allocation? What implications do their choices have on their future and on a country's economic future?
This film takes a deeper look at how the three superpowers of the 21st Century - China, India and the United States - are preparing their students for the future. As we follow two students - a boy and a girl - from each of these countries, we compose a global snapshot of education, from the viewpoint of kids preparing for their future.
Our goal is to tell the broader story of the universal importance of education today, and address what many are calling a crisis for U.S. schools regarding chronically low scores in math and science indicators."
times are a changing...(and how)
trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_QENuOYL8&hl=en
.tor
http://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/3313/2-Million-Minutes-Title1-DVDRip-new-avi
"Regardless of nationality, as soon as a student completes the 8th grade, the clock starts ticking. From that very moment the child has approximately -
…Two Million Minutes until high school graduation…Two Million Minutes to build their intellectual foundation…Two Million Minutes to prepare for college and ultimately career…Two Million Minutes to go from a teenager to an adult
How a student spends their Two Million Minutes - in class, at home studying, playing sports, working, sleeping, socializing or just goofing off -- will affect their economic prospects for the rest of their lives.
http://www.2mminutes.com/about.html
How do most American high school students spend this time? What about students in the rest of the world? How do family, friends and society influence a student's choices for time allocation? What implications do their choices have on their future and on a country's economic future?
This film takes a deeper look at how the three superpowers of the 21st Century - China, India and the United States - are preparing their students for the future. As we follow two students - a boy and a girl - from each of these countries, we compose a global snapshot of education, from the viewpoint of kids preparing for their future.
Our goal is to tell the broader story of the universal importance of education today, and address what many are calling a crisis for U.S. schools regarding chronically low scores in math and science indicators."
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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the two american students come out looking like champs.
Shining Knights of Virtue, Holy Bastions of Wisdom and Progenitors of Knowledge.
Right?
Right?
... cough cough ...
Right?
If I opened it now would you not understand?
uhhhhh...
uhhh....
Yes?
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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The US kids play video games and watch TV.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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yeah but the TV is educational!
And Rock Band breeds the creative talent America is so famous for!
If I opened it now would you not understand?
All I c an say is any guitar my kid ever gets has strings or forget about it, and this is where to begin for the boom boom smash part...
but I'm hearing real talent is highly over rated these days anyways..
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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I was shocked that he overheard me listening to a Honeymoon Suite song a month or so ago, and asked me who it was 'cause he thought it was cool...he is not a "rocker" kid at all, from what I had figured...more of a computer obsessed type... I think all kinds of video games have awesome implications.
TV, not so much....
It's really funny to see him walking around with his "guitars" poking out of his backpack...they look like the guitars he "played" when he was two years old...with brightly coloured push-buttons...
http://www.myspace.com/illuminatta
Rhinocerous Surprise '08!!!
It's not so much the system as the work ethic. These kids bust their ass night and day with their school work. Their school days are even longer. Actually they spend twice as much time in school and probably 5 times the amount consuming the material outside of school in comparison.
60% of the PHD's handed out in the US are to foreign students studying abroad.
The work ethic is ferocious.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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http://www.myspace.com/illuminatta
Rhinocerous Surprise '08!!!
sure.
i don't really agree with militarism,
but if the kids can be raised to value free will and individualism and yet also be ferociously motivated, more power to them.
I'm not sure that is what is going on, but it would be nice if it were.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Overachieving, to me, is the other side of the imbalance coin to underachieving.
I'm for balance in individuals, and for empowerment and self-actualization, which comes from within, not from discipline taught from without.
There is a huge difference in outcome, imo.
http://www.myspace.com/illuminatta
Rhinocerous Surprise '08!!!
angelica, i agree with you.
but given the two options,
our country would achieve ever greater benefit from the overachieving underactualized side of the coin than it is currently from the "overactualized" underachieving side.
I put "overactualized" in quotes, because i would actualy beg to disagree on that part of the diachotomy.
I think quite to the contrary, this country (USA) has produced VERY few actualized beings, and a gross abundance of braindead ninnys who know very little about the world (which is scary enough) and even less about their own true nature.
I'm not really sure where THAT "skill" comes from, but they are no more getting it here, then they are in those countries which through militaristic educational programs churn out egghead overachievers.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
In my equation it was "overachieving". When I talked of self-actualization, I referred to a state of health that is not achieved by most worldwide, even though it's the birthright health of humans.
Agreed. This is why I advocate for empowerment and balance. What we've got with the majority of people worldwide is imbalance.
People do not know how to be self-directed and connected to their environments and wisdom, because they are taught to follow the direction of others, which runs counter to be connected with the life and intelligence that flows within.
http://www.myspace.com/illuminatta
Rhinocerous Surprise '08!!!
That all depends on what students expectations are going into the workforce.
Myself, sure it's good to a certain point.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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I'm interested in empowering my kids to see beyond the manmade rules and limits to a place where they can access their potential and create their dreams, in synch with natural universal laws (which includes in harmony with their surroundings). In my view, they can live as per their inner visions, in happiness and health. This is how it is when we are aligned with natural law.
Like the mainstream politician du jour, the longer we continue to buy into the corrupt systems, the longer we perpetuate the illusions.
I certainly agree there are benefits from all systems and I advocate adopting what works when it is empowering. I personally feel this is how we wake people up. Not substituting one illusory ideology for another.
http://www.myspace.com/illuminatta
Rhinocerous Surprise '08!!!
everything else you've said i agree with.
on the source of self-actualized thought, i'm not so sure, though.
The reason i'm saying this is that your contention (as i read it, anyhow) that personal wisdom is thwarted by the subservience to the authority of others seemingly fails to account for the lack of it in the United States.
In other words, there are more than enough kids and adults in this country who have little regard for any kind of authority -- political, social, familial or moral -- and yet they have not achievied any sort of actualization.
And i just don't see the connection there.
Sure they are following orders, in that they probably go to a regular job (i hope) but beyond that, most people I know are VERY poorly actualized and accept very little authority over them.
Although another thought hit me, and that is that the HABITUALIZATION of the human experience may be part of the problem.
And to that extent, it plays in to a concern i was going to raise about spirituality, or a diciplined practice of some inner focus.
What i mean is, when i read your statement, my knee-jerk reaction was that surely an obeyance of authority can not be the source of all lack of actualization, because one of the greatest tools towards achieving that aim IS an obedience to a practice like yoga, meditation, or some sort of focus, reflection or otherwise inwardly focused teaching. This obviously requires obedience.
So seemingly we are in conflict.
But when i stumbled just now upon the realization that HABITUALIZATION seems to play a part in the problem, i got a little eureka. What i mean regarding habitualization is that the mindLESS repetition of event in the modern human experience (wake up, dress, go to work. think sleight of hand) has numbed mankind to his own birthright experience (as you say).
However, the diametric opposite of habitualization (as far as i'm concerned?) is RITUALIZATION.
In other words, it is the infusing of otherwise meaningless or mindLESS events with some special importance and mindFULness that brings about self-actualization.
Perhaps this could be part of the root problem?
There is very little valid ritualized experience left in the modern world.
Even things you would try to name are little more than habit anymore.
Christmas, or most major holidays ... i go out and buy a present because i'm expected to. I dress up and go to my aunts for dinner because that is the norm.
Very little meaning is inherent in stuff like that, and it is a shame. (not about organzied relgion, imho, just the implication of meaningful transcendental content no longer being available in the modern world) ...
okay, whoa.
i'm in over my head.
time for a break.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Self-actualized individuals have respect for all others, authority or otherwise, that reflects their own inner deep self-reverence. So when you mention the lack of respect for authority in the US, that is about imbalance, again, not self-actualization.
My actual contention is that either/or propositions are imbalanced. And that inner direction is the way to go. One can easily be inner-directed and still respect authority, and social institutions, and self-actualized individuals do so all the time. Once we step into either/or propositions, we miss integrated/healthy ones. Which, again, is why I'm not fond of over/under-achieving models.
you said: When one is self-actualizing, they tune into the meanings inherent to life through their own connection to life. The meanings "reveal" themselves, which is why attuned individuals through time (and still) have "revelations". This is not giving something meaning, but rather perceiving the meaning that exists, through their own awareness - one taps into it and experiences it through their individuality...This is why "peak experiences" and experiences of oneness with the universe are central to self-actualization. It is direct perception, which is the opposite of ritualization.
The meaning is always there and is manifested in unfathomable ways, through the amazing diversity of .... All... in every moment of each day. When one awakens to it, it is far beyond logic and consensual reality, and yet one then sees that such meaning is always Present. We're merely generally unconscious of it.
The root of the problem is very simple. We perpetuate lack of alignment with life. We practise life-killing behaviours all the time, and hold our own energy back. (imbalances, addictions, disorders, etc). We willfully choose to do so, and we live out the consequences. When we perpetuate separation from any part of life on any level, we perpetuate it.
The way to integration becomes very narrow, and yet filled with all possibilites. Most people don't want all possibilities. They don't know what to do with that. They want "security", which is not natural. They want to hold to the ideologies because they think it will bring them peace. It is the exact opposite.
http://www.myspace.com/illuminatta
Rhinocerous Surprise '08!!!
Bully for them.
Life's too short to be so fucking intense and narrowly focused. My kids are well balanced. My son is an athlete on a year-round traveling soccer team, a gamer, and a 4.0 student. My daughter is graduating high school this year with a 4.0, has a job teaching little kids, and plays recreational sports. They're doing just fine. I would not care to have a child who was focused soley on their education at the expense of their socalization.
You get back what you put into education in this country. If you want to skate through it you can graduate a moron. If you put some effort in, take AP classes in high school, etc.. you'll be well prepared for college, work, and life beyond.
The balance is tipping. The same kids come here and see the reality of a getting 4.0 grade score score as nothing, It's like a vacation for them.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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