Education....hmm?

I've been contemplating a discussion held at a ceremony practice a while back and thought I would expound on it here.

To the members of the ceremony team I hope I do the discussion justice.

Higher education In today's society only makes it half way. In today's colleges we are told to value each opinion and always look at both sides of an issue. Good? Yes. but it does not complete the Idea of being educated. Back in the day you were taught to reason meaning you would not just look at issues and validate alone, You would pick something and stick with it until either you have proven it right, or someone else has given enough evidence to prove you wrong. Higher education provides a vehicle to a lot of new ideas. But we need to not just validate every point we come across we need to Make educated decisions.

Ok I'm done. but it's something that Government sparked in me I don't care if the teacher is wrong at least I can make decisions about what I can take from that class. It's the fact that she (my teacher) does not even get to the first level of THINKING she just regurgitates the bloody book!

Informed I Am Not.

So, just the other day I was invited to be interviewed by a Palestinian student that Kimberly knows. Her name was Hanadi (I'm sorry if I killed that). And she wanted to know what American students thought about the Palestinian Israeli conflict that is going on right now.

My realization I do not know as much as I thought about current events. I was forced to explain that in front of her camera. But apparently in order to be informed about this issue you have to dig like mad on the Internet. According to NBC "X" number of soldiers go in and they move to other news. What they fail to tell us is that "Y" number of Palestinian were killed by "X" number of soldiers because Israel will not let journalists in.

Grr. The conversation at the Wilk on campus made me disgusted. Palestine is a prison right now nobody comes in (except American financed gun toting Israeli soldiers.) And nobody comes out, including all of the homeless Palestinian natives. So here is the challenge if you want to be informed see if you can come to one of Mr. Birds classes Feb 16th and 17th (I might be wrong about those dates so I will make sure) because Kimberly will be teaching and I believe Hanadi will also be there. So come and get informed about something I was not.

PS. These are the correct dates.

Ok Maybe I Should Post Something...

Its' been a while.

But hey the term is ending, and while this is not going to be pretty (in fact this term will be horrible as far as grades are concerned) It was A. a lot of fun and B. Long. It will feel so good to have the slate clean and be able to try to do a little better with staying on top of things this next term. We'll have to see how it goes.

Oh boy..... some week.

This last week was great.

And Insane.

But a lot of fun. I went on 3 dates, 2 to the forgotten carols and one amazing Christmas dance. I guess I take after a few dear scoutmasters of mine when it comes to the "Warm Fuzzy Feelings" because truth be told after Josephs song on the second night my eyes were sweating a bit. (Not outright crying but dang close) I really enjoyed the show both nights.

As for the Christmas dance, I thoroughly enjoyed all of it. OK maybe the drive could have been a little safer not to criticize the driver but the roads were treacherous. And it might have helped to have spikes in my tux shoes, because I managed to biff it twice that night once with my date. (thank goodness she let go or I would have brought her down too.) However snow and ice aside I could not have asked for better company and a more enjoyable (20 person) Group.

Oh, and as a side note at the Christmas dance almost everybody tried some of my carrot pudding and most enjoyed it to! So we have discovered that the pudding is not the cause of my insanity. (though I am probably overly excited about having my friends try my pudding stuffed in a jar)

Choir Dinner and the Sisters

Tonight is the last night of choir dinner! The stress begins to be relived. But it has been a lot of fun. Between spending almost a solid 48 hrs setting up and writing / preforming the narration it has been an enjoyable experience.

Our ward brought seven of the widows from our ward and my brother escorted them. Their transportation: The Brooksby's stretch limo. My brother said that he felt like he was in the car with seven giggling teen-agers. Many thanks to brother Brooksby for driving and letting us pull this off, the sisters were so excited and had a great time.

College

Ok: Who let colleges make such ridiculous deadlines? December 1st Whew… I think I’m losing… GPA ACT AP and all the other acronyms that are spelling DOOM are haunting me, and I still manage to put it off, this is not going to be pretty in a few weeks.

Election Day

With Election day looming before us I find a comment I heard on NPR (national public radio) quite comforting. The reporter was interviewing a few factory workers in Mississippi and talked to them about the upcoming election, one comment made by an ex convict made me perk up a bit and listen he said: "Even if He (Obama) doesn't get elected I'm just going to keep on working hard 'cause that's when people will respect you." So in the end with which ever president or congress majority or even with or with out a library bond we can all just work hard and gain respect and change that way.

so I don't have a lot to write but maybe someday I will