Morning Meeting by Bert? Improv! – D56

This morning Bert was going to facilitate the meeting, but since he has been sick (rumor says that he has pneumonia) we facilitated as a group. First we watched some videos and wait for the other because we were only 8, and then only three more arrived later and we discussed a quote Bert gave us. We changed the method of the attendance sheet, so now everyone is responsible for putting his or her name on the respective column and that way we will know who's absent.

These are the videos we watched for today's morning meeting:

TED2012 remixed, 60 Second Adventures in Economics (combined), The History of Nikola Tesla, The History of Thomas Edison, and The History of Che Guevara.

We also discussed this quote, first in pairs and then as a group.

“…(As a public school teacher) I teach the lesson of dependency. Good people wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. This is the most important lesson of all, that we must wait for other people, better trained than ourselves, to make the meaning of our lives…We’ve built a way of life that depends on people doing what they are told because they don’t know any other way.”

- John Taylor Gatto

On Time... And New Method

The Crime of the Zebra

Morning Meeting by Alejo – D55

This morning I woke up with a terrible lower back pain that I assume it was because of yesterday’s physical activity. Bad call on my behalf. I was almost decided to stay in bed and rest, but I couldn’t forgive myself to loose the battle for punctuality with Pablito like that, so I woke up and came to the MPC.

Alejo’s morning meeting was a reference to Sarah Kay’s TEDTalk, If I Should Have a Daughter. The activity consisted on writing ten things we know are true. Here are my ten things I consider as true. Here and here are the links to Alejo’s blog were you can find what the other wrote.

10 Things I Know To Be True

Morning meeting by Franz – D45

So, yesterday I was watching this TEDTalk about “The transformative powers of classical music” by Benjamin Zander, and I found it great and posted it in the group MPC at UFM. To my surprise, Franz decided to share this TEDTalk and at first I thought he didn’t prepare anything and saw my post on the group, so I was a little disappointed of him, but then, I saw my post and found out he didn’t saw it and that it was a very rare coincidence. Do great minds think alike? Maybe it was just a happy coincidence because it was a great talk. Everybody enjoyed it a lot. By the way, we changed Agora with the Morning meeting because of some sound difficulties.

At 9:30 a.m. we had a dialogue about “Apology” by Plato. We read out loud the first paragraphs and then discussed them, reaching to the conclusion (with a lot of Bert’s interventions, almost as if he dominated the dialogue) that Socrates, in his defense, is not only making the context and structuring his arguments for future refutation of the prosecutors’ arguments, but he is teaching how human mind works. It was a good dialogue for the Epicycle 1 about Classical Works.