~:[CH15 - Day 12]:~ Different Times, Different Places

 
~:[CH15 - Day 12]:~ Different Times, Different Places

My amazing master teacher had a simulation that I still do today. While I've had to adapt it from year to year, this year, I had a full class and thus was able to run the simulation at full capacity. I love how we bring together thinkers from various time periods and different countries to discuss one topic. To watch freshmen take on complex ideas is quite impressive as they demonstrate what young minds are capable of. In the process of learning, these students not only learn about their own ideas and thoughts, but gather the perspectives of people around the world throughout history. As they represent a country, they discover the beliefs that may differ from their own. At the end of the day, they may not believe the policy they just represented, nonetheless, it helps them understand a new perspective and may help them see things from a new point of view. I think that's our problem today. We see things from our perspective and nobody else's. We lose sight of the things that are important in the quest for what we think is right. At the end of the day, our perspective might not change, but let's take a second to see all sides of a situation before we settle on what we believe. To simply shoot down the opinions of others before we even hear them out is exactly is what is keeping us from solving the problems we currently face. Tomorrow, we will continue discussing the same topic and the various philosophers will most likely get more heated, as they dig deeper into their various policies, however, at the end of the day, these young minds will hear the words of those from different times and different places, which will help them formulate what they believe today. This process allows them to discover how to formulate their own thoughts and beliefs and I hope that no matter what they settle on, they do it with fact and reason.