Present your perspective on the issue below, using relevant reasons and/or examples to support your views.
"Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time."
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"Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways."
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"Laws should not be rigid or fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places."
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"It is always an individual who is the impetus for innovation; the details may be worked out by a team, but true innovation results from the enterprise and unique perception of an individual."
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"The function of science is to reassure; the purpose of art is to upset. Therein lies the value of each."
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"The study of an academic discipline alters the way we perceive the world. After studying the discipline, we see the same world as before, but with different eyes."
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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3 comments:
May i suggest that the issues posted above be posted at independent times to make commenting on it effective because i don't think it is any help posting all of them there. They are quite interesting and if we discuss each of them separately and deeply, we would get further down Knowledge road.
Hmm, I think hMensa is probably right.
What I can see (and maybe it's just me looking for a pattern) is a connection between these issues and one of the essay titles! Not sure if Yamamoto is working on this wavelength...
Yamamoto,
Despite the overkill with so many issues raised at the same time, you have brought to the surface a number of concepts that probably naturally reside at the "lower level" of the diagram that we discussed in connection with TOK presentations - ie important concepts couched in the vocabulary of TOK.
These include the ideas of originality and innovation, of a law, and the correct relation of individuals and teams.
These ideas could be applied, successfully or otherwise, to one or more of the essay titles set...
Hope this helps with whatever agenda Yamamoto intends.
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