(ESPCEX) We’re so well educated – but we’re useless

Record numbers of students have entered higher education in the past 10 years, but despite being the most educated generation in history, it seems that we’ve grown increasingly ignorant when it comes to basic life skills.

Looking back on my first weeks living in student halls, I consider myself lucky to still be alive. I have survived a couple of serious boiling egg incidents and numerous cases of food-poisoning, probably from dirty kitchen counters. Although some of my clothes have fallen victim to ironing experimentation, I think I have now finally acquired all the domestic skills I missed out in my modern education.

Educationist Sir Ken Robinson says that our current education system dislocates people from their natural talents and deprives us of what used to be passed from generation to generation – a working knowledge of basic life skills. Today’s graduates may have earned themselves distinctions in history, law or economics, but when it comes to simple things like putting up a shelf to hold all their academic books, or fixing a hole in their on-trend clothes, they have to call for help from a professional handyman or tailor.

Besides what we need to know for our own jobs, we must have practical skills. We don’t grow our own crops, build our own houses, or make our own clothes anymore; we simply buy these things. Unable to create anything ourselves, what we have mastered instead is consumption.

Sociologist Saskia Sassen argues that the modern liberal state has created a middle class that isn’t able to “make” anymore. I suggest that we start with the immediate reintroduction of some of the most vital aspects of “domestic science” education. Instead of only maths, language and history, we should create an interactive learning environment in schools where craftsmanship and problem-solving are valued as highly as the ability to absorb and regurgitate information. We need to develop children into people that not only think for themselves, but are also able to act for themselves.

Adapted from http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2013/feb/25/well-educated-but-useless

In the sentence “I think I have now finally acquired all the domestic skills I missed out in my modern education.” (paragraph 2), the words missed out mean:

Uma prática que os brasileiros costumam realizar é a degustação de doces em compotas. O conhecimento popular indica que não é aceitável deixar o mesmo talher usado na degustação e levado à boca dentro da compoteira aberta, em contato com o doce. Essa indicação se deve ao fato de que o doce, no pensamento popular, poderá azedar.

Essa prática popular encontra respaldo no pensamento científico, uma vez que o doce realmente poderá azedar em razão da

(UFRGS) Pedro e Paulo diariamente usam bicicletas para ir ao colégio. O gráfico abaixo mostra como ambos percorreram as distâncias até o colégio, em função do tempo, em certo dia.

Com base no gráfico, considere as seguintes afirmações.

A velocidade média desenvolvida por Pedro foi maior do que a desenvolvida por Paulo.

A máxima velocidade foi desenvolvida por Paulo.

Ambos estiveram parados pelo mesmo intervalo de tempo, durante seus percursos.

Quais estão corretas?

(ITA) 5 Ways To Turn Fear Into Fuel

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jonathan Fields, author of Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance.

Uncertainty. It’s a terrifying word.

Living with it, dangling over your head like the sword of Damocles, ⁵day in day out, is enough to send anyone spiraling into a state of anxiety, fear and paralysis.

¹¹Like it or not, though, uncertainty is the new normal. We live in a time where the world is in a state of constant, long-term flux. And, that’s not all. If you want to spend your time on the planet not just ⁶getting-by, but consistently creating art, experiences, businesses and lives that truly matter, you’ll need to proactively ⁷seek out, invite and even deliberately amplify uncertainty. Because the other side of uncertainty is opportunity.

Nothing great was ever created by waiting around for someone to tell you it’s all going to be okay or for perfect information to drop from the sky. Doesn’t happen that way. Great work requires you to act in the face of uncertainty, to live in the question long enough for your true potential to emerge. There is no alternative.

¹When you find the strength to act in the face of uncertainty, you till the soil of genius.

²Problem is, that kills most people. It leads to unease, anxiety, fear and doubt on a level that snuffs out most genuinely meaningful and potentially revolutionary endeavors before they even see the light of day. Not because they wouldn’t have succeeded, but because you never equipped yourself to ⁸handle and even harness the emotional energy of the journey.

But, what if it didn’t have to be that way?

What if there was a way to turn the fear, anxiety and self-doubt that rides along with acting in the face of uncertainty—⁴the head-to-toe butterflies—into fuel for brilliance?

¹⁰Turns out, there is. ³Your ability to lean into the unknown isn’t so much about luck or genetics, rather it’s something entirely trainable. I’ve spent the past few years interviewing world-class creators across a wide range of fields and ⁹pouring over research that spans neuroscience, decision-theory, psychology, creativity and business.

Through this work, a collection of patterns, practices and strategies have emerged that not only turbocharge insight, creativity, innovation and problem-solving, but also help ameliorate so much of the suffering so often associated with the pursuit of any creative quest.

Fonte: http://zenhabits.net/fearfuel. Acesso em 07/12/2011. Texto adaptado.  

Escolha a opção que apresenta a mesma ideia da afirmação a seguir: “Your ability to lean into the unknown isn’t so much about luck or genetics, rather it’s something entirely trainable” (ref. 3). 

(UECE) No mundo dos multicelulares, há níveis de organização superiores à célula. A partir dessa informação, assinale a afirmação verdadeira.