Currently I'm future oriented, in the past 3 years I have been Past-Negative and that had severely effected my grades and behavior. Since this year is my Senior year I had an epiphany and decided to get my crap together, now my grades are mostly good (except one that has been moved in my school schedule twice and I have been unprepared a lot, that will end this week tho
) and my behavior is slightly better. I'm depressed less, I read more, and I sleep more. Hell! I even started exercising today!
Also, not to gloat but I had 3 semesters of English to recover (estimated 6 weeks of work) that I got done in 2 days. Which my teachers found extraordinary.
I completely agree with him on his point that schools are passive and static. In this new evolving generation of dynamic technology bound creationists knowing the facts isn't enough. Applying them into real world interactive scenarios is what locks them inside your long term memory. I counteract this by asking questions A LOT in class to start subject related conversations that let me cope with the boredom by having some control over the direction of the lesson.
In my opinion we're in a technological renaissance, if you look at technology production from the end of the renaissance to the 1800s you'll see very, very little when it comes to advancement as a species. Then take a look at the late 1800s to today! We went from horses to space in 70 years!
