Should School and Schooling/Education be about learning to be Happy and Healthy?

Watch this and let me know what you think ......



I have some disquiet about these videos (I am after all a half-empty glass person and a marxist at heart). A further thought (and here my philosophical leanings intrude): Happiness is a feeling but is it a state of being? It is an Affect but is it a Metaphysical State? I think there is some confusion here. And where is the materiality? especially where he gets an internship ......

Before you flame me for being too hard, after all he is only a 13 y o kid ...... well, I blame the TEDx organisers ...... is it sensationalism? is it entertainment? just to "sell" the video? is this "porn" for the educated intelligentsia where the most common response is "inspiring"?

First BlogPost ......

I have finally decided in 2014 (even though it is already February!!) to begin a personal blog which reflects/evidences/concretises the "stuff" which I am interested in, which makes me who I am. The "stuff" tends to be eclectic, esoteric and eccentric. There is philosophy, theology, mathematics, theoretical physics, law/s, pursuit/training in excellence, creativity, giftedness ......

I will not labour to provide a comprehensive introduction here but hopefully the blogposts will be a work-in-progress of detailing who/what/why/how I am.

I am also reviving/beginning new blogs specifically on philosophy/theology and the law/s (see the links to side).

Here is the first blogpost I have done on sunday sermon (see here).

Words which may/may not indicate who/what/why/how I am:

pessismistic optimist

melancholic

dilettante

flaneur

peregrinate

gourmand

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