December 10, 2003
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Travel Update:
Learned how to play rugby today by playing the rugby 2004 video game on Play Station 2.
Watched a surf video made by musician Jack Johnson, got a good feel for the surf culture, which is huge in this part of the world.
Went to a traditional Zulu site today, where I saw Zulu wedding dancing . Absolutely amazing. Colorful beads flying, tamborine feet stomping and making noise to the beat of the animal skinned drums.
Watched Arsenal win 2-0 and advance to the final 16 of the Champions League.
Learning of the Day: It costs a zulu male 11 cows to marry a zulu female.
Plan of the Day: This book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig is literally screaming for me to push forward with my ideas for starting some sort of college that holds a mission statement of learning for the sake of learning and self-growth and developing a community of interested people.
Comments (4)
Starting a college. I’m so down.
And you watched Arsenal? How awesome is that?
Johnny
Sounds fantastic!
Dan, you are right. I agree that formal education shouldn’t be given up altogether. I guess that my point is that the student should be given the freedom to ask for the education that he wants, not told and hand-fed what someone else thinks would be good for him. It’s one thing to ask someone to share his or her knowledge with you. It’s quite another that they require you to sit and listen to it. Most of us don’t know how to seek our own knowledge because it is fed to us throughout our lives. I think perhaps seeking and thinking for oneself is the greatest lesson one can learn.
But that can’t be done without others.