I am 'wondering' if the teachers who comment and are interested in the blogs that we students have made, would like to blog their own views and thoughts about Sophie's World, answering the question from Assignment #1.
Surely many of us students would like to know what the teachers we look up to are thinking about.
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I agree with Marcus.
OK.Fair enough,but you must remember that this is an OPINION and no more or less valid than anyone else's. I don't think we lose the ability to wonder,but it is, perhaps, more difficult to awaken, partly due to our experience of the world. Also the age we live in and the technological advances that are being made expose us to a lot more information.This,of course can also lead to more wonderment e.g. the David Attenborough Planet Earth series or the discovery that Poor old Pluto isn't a planet after all!Having said all this I can still catch the Star Ferry and be blown away by the Hong Kong sky line
I'm not sure that we lose the ability to wonder - but rather the complications of adult life get in the way at times! Perhaps it's more a case of not sharing our thoughts and "wonderings" as openly as we did when we were kids. Certainly watchimg my daughter grow and wonder and learn over the past 8 years has been a constant source of wonder and amazement for me. Reading the extaordinaryily thoughtful and articulate postings has also been very stimulating. This has me wondering what sorts of things I would have said at your age if faced with such a question!
Thanks for the invite, Marcus: I'm pleased to know that you value teachers' input so much... though I'm not sure we all feel comfortable being placed on a pedestal and "looked up to." The reason why we're sitting on the side-lines -- for now -- is to give you, the students, the space to dialogue and grow into this on-line blog. Though you're all no doubt very savvy with on-line interactions (Facebook, etc.), few of you had likely, until now, interacted in such a way for academic purposes.
So the ToK teacher team has intentionally observed (with great interest, I can assure you!) what's been unfolding... occasionally chipped in via a comment, but has not 'taken the lead' to post a full blown response. There will be the time and place to do so once we group into our classes of 15 or so and start wrestling, face-to-face, together, with the gorgeous knowledge issues that are at the heart of ToK. So please: don't take our side-lined 'silence' as disinterest; quite the contrary: it's a healthy sign of respect to give you, the students, the space to speak, be listened to, and to learn from.
Keep up the good work!
Hi Marcus
Okay, the old challenge the teacher routine. yay. You know I'm not short of a word, and I know some of your thoughts from last year's brief but interesting e-mail exchange on 'world views' but is ToK about what I think any more than what you think? Or, more accurately HOW we all think? What do you really think of 'Sophie's World?' Of the questions Mr Jabal has asked? Do you have the courage to stand up and say what YOU THINK?
Mr Turver
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