While there were many interesting things brought up, the comment that struck me the most was the question on intelligence... Is intelligence sense-making or world-making? Probably no need to say which my position on the situation is. Particularly striking was also the conversation on how education, and the use of technology in education, can re-humanize, or even just plain humanize, marginalized children... The project done in India was very inspirational and thoughtful. I figure stuff like that doesnt happen as much in China because we figure the government (or the party) will take care of it... Too bad. But inspiring, for sure.
The irony of my being stuck in Cambridge writing a 'paper' that wasn't going anywhere was just too great to ignore. And we all thought that i was finally done with that... I did make it back to Darwin's to eat "my" sandwich though which was nice. And I also read like 3 books and watched 2 movies. Old habits die hard. Especially when they are prompted by paper writing, procrastination and jet lag.
Thank god i am back in New York and the weather is sunny. The street is beyond crowded with tourists taking pictures of the Gucci shop (no idea why this is interesting as a photo...) but still, good to be "home."
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