Wonderings 30

 What's missing in life?

1. Were you able to answer these questions?
2. Who am I?
3. What do I know/not know?
4. What is my purpose?
5. Why am I who I am?
6. Is there an afterlife?
7. Is there just the Human Race?
8. Do you believe in extraterrestrials?
9. Do you ask questions?
10. Have you learned to think?

Thinking - Pondering - Wondering

One of the tasks I used to ask my business students on the first day of class were these question...

• What did you learn from your previous business class?
• Who are you and what do you know/not know?

They had three hours to complete this in-class assignment and if they needed to take it home to complete, they could; in fact, they had until the end of the semester to turn it in if they needed the time.  If they took it home it had to be typed.

For Homework on that first day of class, their assignment to create a list of bullet points on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, assuming the starting point was entering the kitchen.  They had to have between 250 and 300 bullet points to receive a grade of "C".

Most, if not all of my students complained about both assignments; some went as far as complaining to the Dean causing the Dean to seek me out questioning the efficacy of my assignment for business students.  What this told me was that the Dean had been promoted to his level of incompetence and would probably go no further.

The assignment stood and I continued to give that assignment to business students until I retired three years later.

THINKING...

That is what life is missing...