Comments on: Sheepwalking http://www.jarche.com/2007/02/sheepwalking/ Learning & Working on the Web Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:55:39 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Harold http://www.jarche.com/2007/02/sheepwalking/comment-page-1/#comment-114199 Harold Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:44:09 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1023#comment-114199 Henry David Thoreau said, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." Henry David Thoreau said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

]]> By: Joop Roelofs http://www.jarche.com/2007/02/sheepwalking/comment-page-1/#comment-113907 Joop Roelofs Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:45:36 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1023#comment-113907 I think that the term 'sheepwalking' is a very nice expression for the phenomenon 'sleepwalking' during daytime. For instance I like very much to do learning in freedom and for this internet is a goldmine. I did not like and do not like the (academic) schoolsystem, where your opinion is not relevant for the study. You have to reproduce knowledge - which is no knowledge - and which you will forget soon. Because there is no relationship between you as a person and the information. In this way I like the movie Dead Poets Society very much and the individualistisc writers like Thoreau, Emerson an so on. Let us be unique persons with unique lives and let's take our own responsibility for our own destiny and calling. Otherwise we will end like 'the death of a salesman'. Only sacrificing and suffering. No caring for ourselves! I wish everybody a lot of success and of course also a lot of courage to be no 'sheep walker' anymore! Best wishes, Joop Roelofs The Netherlands I think that the term ’sheepwalking’ is a very nice expression for the phenomenon ’sleepwalking’ during daytime. For instance I like very much to do learning in freedom and for this internet is a goldmine. I did not like and do not like the (academic) schoolsystem, where your opinion is not relevant for the study. You have to reproduce knowledge – which is no knowledge – and which you will forget soon. Because there is no relationship between you as a person and the information. In this way I like the movie Dead Poets Society very much and the individualistisc writers like Thoreau, Emerson an so on. Let us be unique persons with unique lives and let’s take our own responsibility for our own destiny and calling. Otherwise we will end like ‘the death of a salesman’. Only sacrificing and suffering. No caring for ourselves!

I wish everybody a lot of success and of course also a lot of courage to be no ’sheep walker’ anymore!

Best wishes,
Joop Roelofs
The Netherlands

]]> By: Thieme Hennis http://www.jarche.com/2007/02/sheepwalking/comment-page-1/#comment-77689 Thieme Hennis Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:10:48 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1023#comment-77689 Students, people, are nowadays trained to be sheep, trained to be 'fit for society', which is a society created by our parents, an industrial, assessable (if that's a word) society. Or at least, a high importance is put on assessing and evaluating anything in numbers and reports. I agree that is absolutely much more easier as an educational institution to assess a curriculum that teaches students to be sheep than to be wolves. When I tried to go my own way during college, I was highly demotivated by the challenges imposed by people and institutional bureaucracies to do this. Sometimes it even proved impossible, because it could not officially be included in the curriculum. Students are taught to be sheep. These well-trained sheep are confronted with complex situations during their education, but still, these are imposed by the uni, and even the methodologies to tackle them. After an expensive education of several years, students never have had incentives to go their own way, to be critical, to be innovative. They get a 'sheep'-certificate afterwards, which they can wave to enter some kind of sheep company. This is nowadays comparable with the industrial workers at the factories a century ago. Maybe they will now be the first ones to be replaced.. What I am wondering, are there any figures on how people act; whether some people are inherently sheep, and others are wolves, and whether a radical change in education has any influence on this? Students, people, are nowadays trained to be sheep, trained to be ‘fit for society’, which is a society created by our parents, an industrial, assessable (if that’s a word) society. Or at least, a high importance is put on assessing and evaluating anything in numbers and reports. I agree that is absolutely much more easier as an educational institution to assess a curriculum that teaches students to be sheep than to be wolves. When I tried to go my own way during college, I was highly demotivated by the challenges imposed by people and institutional bureaucracies to do this. Sometimes it even proved impossible, because it could not officially be included in the curriculum. Students are taught to be sheep. These well-trained sheep are confronted with complex situations during their education, but still, these are imposed by the uni, and even the methodologies to tackle them. After an expensive education of several years, students never have had incentives to go their own way, to be critical, to be innovative. They get a ’sheep’-certificate afterwards, which they can wave to enter some kind of sheep company. This is nowadays comparable with the industrial workers at the factories a century ago. Maybe they will now be the first ones to be replaced..

What I am wondering, are there any figures on how people act; whether some people are inherently sheep, and others are wolves, and whether a radical change in education has any influence on this?

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