If you get yourself some enormous sunglasses, be sure to post a self portrait with them on flickr, i am eager to see the hipster side of you!
Jennifer
· 2 years ago
Now I'm worried about my upcoming trip to Ecuador, I might not be fab enough!! Either way, I'm going to paint my toes...
Have you thought of giving Sangee a call? Perhaps he could hook you up with some fashion.
Brendan
· 2 years ago
Sangee is a good call. Perhaps he could design you something, fresh from Italy, and you would find yourself far out-styling the stylish in one fell swoop.
More seriously, your discussion of educational styles reminds me of the levels of mastery I learned recently from a text: follow, detach, transcend. A beginner follows rules by rote until he can easily repeat them, then detaches himself from strict adherence to those rules, at the same time learning the reasoning behind the rules. Finally, the student transcends, or becomes a practitioner, writing his own rules. In U.S. academics, the first level corresponds to pre-collegiate schooling, the second to undergraduate schooling, and the third to work on the graduate level and beyond.
While in the U.S., we are sometimes too eager to skip the first level (hence our trouble with grammar and handwriting), it sounds like Ecuadorian culture is highly focused on the first level of learning.
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Have you thought of giving Sangee a call? Perhaps he could hook you up with some fashion.
More seriously, your discussion of educational styles reminds me of the levels of mastery I learned recently from a text: follow, detach, transcend. A beginner follows rules by rote until he can easily repeat them, then detaches himself from strict adherence to those rules, at the same time learning the reasoning behind the rules. Finally, the student transcends, or becomes a practitioner, writing his own rules. In U.S. academics, the first level corresponds to pre-collegiate schooling, the second to undergraduate schooling, and the third to work on the graduate level and beyond.
While in the U.S., we are sometimes too eager to skip the first level (hence our trouble with grammar and handwriting), it sounds like Ecuadorian culture is highly focused on the first level of learning.