Assignment
1. How do you understand Nietzsche's Eternal Return?
2. If you had the remote in Click would you use it? If so, in what ways? Why or why not?
3. What message did you get out of Click, if any?
4. What do you think about our education system, K-12 and college and higher education?
5. Watch video: What did you think of the Education Paradigm video?
6. What do you think of Robinson's assessment of the rise of ADD and ADHD?
7. Watch video link on Excellent Sheep: In what ways are students being taught to be ‘excellent sheep'? Do you agree with the author or not?
8. What did you think of Jeff Bliss, the high school kid who stepped up to his teacher?
"That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate on life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
9. Do you think that we are all interconnected in some way?
"This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time." - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
10. Reflect on the words above. How do you understand it?
"There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for." - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
11. Hypothetically as suggested by the movie Five People you meet in Heaven, what 5 people do you think has impacted your life and/or you have impacted their lives? Selected your five people and write about them. Why did you select them
12. What kind of person and figure do you think Socrates was?
13. What stood out the most about Socrates
14. Why do you think Socrates was put on trial?
15. What do you think Socrates was really executed for?
16. Who in today's modern age would you say is like Socrates? Why did you select this person or people?
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.