Thursday, March 29, 2012

Chapter 6


First, on Stasia’s comment about purpose in the classroom; this is extremely important for students to actually gain knowledge on a topic rather than memorize it short term for a good grade. The classes I have fewer memories about are classes that had no purpose for me: biology, algebra, etc. I think it would be extremely hard for a high school teacher to set a purpose for learning something such as algebra that most of the students will never use again in their life.

Next, a random thought I had while reading this chapter and I want to see if anyone agrees with me. The chapter talked about the baby boomer generation. Does anyone else feel like we are going through another baby boomer period?! I swear every time I blink my eyes, someone new is pregnant!

Lastly, I don’t really have any one specific thing I want to go on and on about. I just picked out little points throughout the chapter. I really liked the section about businesses such as TOMS. The book stated “..and to use profit as the catalyst rather than the objective.” I like that statement because sometimes in order to be successful, money and profit can’t be the main objective; it has to have a deeper meaning. Also, going along with our last class’s discussion on cheating- 56% of MBA students admitted to cheating. That is a ridiculous amount of people that admitted it; think about how many more there are that DIDN’T admit it! Yikes!

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