The sounds of silence chapter really made me question whether or not I may be missing out on the simple things in life. The comment that struck me most was that as students we are encouraged to be like a machine, memorizing and processing information and storing it as knowledge to be used later. We are so hurried and rushed trying to cram years worth of information into semesters. We sometimes lose site of what it is we are trying to achieve. Taking into consideration Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the ultimate need is for self actualization which does not come from the words on pages we read or the ability to solve a ridiculously hard finance problem, but rather comes from within. Perhaps without all of life’s distraction and the constant need to achieve more and have more we might reach this stage of self actualization much sooner.
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Well, if I am a machine I am a faulty one! What goes in one ear usually goes out the other. It is pretty scary to think that we are being trained to be machines - then it makes me think of that slide show we saw the other day, that in a few years a machine will have the processing power of the human race. When that point does come, how will the human race handle that? An entire list of crazy movies comes mind, ahh!
I see your point, I'm not that big of a fan of craming years worth of information in ashort time..but i think that all of this education actually helps achieve the need for self-esteem: achievent, status, resposiblity, reputation - acording to Maslow
Your points are very valid. I too feel that all we ever do is memorized theories or formulas. To tell you the truth I would bet that over half of our graduating class will forget half of the total information we learned in our MBA program. I have seen it happen over and over again.
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