Monday, February 21, 2011

Lessons from Captain Kirk

Okay, no one responded to my last post.  Apparently it wasn't nearly as good as I thought.  So, since no one has stepped up to the plate and taken my offer to contribute a blog...well, here I go again. 

Having just written report cards I spent the last week or two reflecting on the work my students have done over the past few months.  One common theme kept running through my mind as I realised just how far many of my students have come and that is that there are no hopeless cases.  Of course, I knew that, but sometimes we all need a reminder of things we've already learned in life.  Captain Kirk, in one of his many great moments, once said, "I don't believe in a no win scenario."  Sometimes, we may have to alter our definition of winning, but there is always a chance to pull yourself from the wreckage.  Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, but then again, maybe it isn't.  So hang in there and keep working towards a positive goal.  Congratulations, Egyptians.

22 comments:

  1. Tyler Haward, write's

    Thats right, after our meeting I realized that i wasn't valuing anything that i said I would value. That's why i'm starting to bring my things home even if i dont have homework, being more orginized and have a positive attitude and be more respectful.   :)

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  2. Every thing that you and Kirk is true. that one thing you said means a lot, it is like waiting for something that is not needed in life.

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  3. Mitchell says...

    WHEN ARE WE GETTING ARE REPORT CARD AND WHEN IS MARCH BREAK!!!!!

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  4. Mitchell, I think your questions could have been asked elsewhere. Come on son, let's talk about the meat of the issue here. I like what "anonymous" said. We do spend too much time on the unimportant things in life. "Time well wasted" is a phrase I sometimes use, and time is not a thing to be wasted.

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  5. Andrew is right mitchell, you should listen to this wise man.

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  6. who dis?????????????

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  7. yep thats so right

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  8. very very wise man

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  9. yeah you no i like watching that movie 2 its GREAT !!!

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  10. very very very very wise man !!

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  11. Being optemistic will help in alot of situations i would agree with "I don't believe in a no win scenario." Some people in life are kind of like doomsayers, and then there is the glass is half empty, or half full. Which is optemistic and pesemistic.

    Plus there is Shrodingers cat, This guy put his cat in a box with a vial of poison to open at a random point in time, so for the time being we can think that the cat is dead and or alive. This is Kind of like the glass.

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  12. i cant spell his name right

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  13. i like that episond when the fur balls are all over the place and thei try to take them of the shipr LOL :)

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  14. haha i watched that when i was 30

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  15. Schrödinger that's how you spell it

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  16. So for now ill hope in this case the Schrödinger's cat is still alive.

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  17. Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison and a radioactive source, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead

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  19. this is a better version of the story

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  20. you should stop this chris kid...

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