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Ye Shall Be As Gods? – Class 14, Period 3
“Ye shall be as gods,” Juli said, watching as the class settled down into their chairs. Leaning against the front of her desk, she let her eyes pass over each of them before continuing on. “It is this conceit that this class has been built around—that, as people, we can even dream of passing by ‘gods’ boundaries. And then,” she smirked, but very faintly, “we, as a race have the nerve to go ahead and do so. To shatter those boundaries and define them more to our liking.”
“Next week is your final exam,” surely they knew that much at least, “and we shall see how much of the thinking you each have retained over the course of the semester. Today though, let us talk about that conceit.”
“’I think, therefore I am.’ Simple, no? Or perhaps you’d prefer ‘Fortune favours the brave’.” Juli smiled a bit. “Both are, in reality, true to some extent. If we did not have the brave few, the innovators that drove our sciences past their and our previous knowledge then new discoveries would never be made. In the quiet, but persistent, belief that they know what they do, why they do it, and that they are in the right… change happens. And the world is born again anew.”
“For today, split into pairs and discuss three ways you think that advances in science of made things better, and three ways that you think it has made things worse.”
[Wait for the OCD is up! Hurrah!]
“Next week is your final exam,” surely they knew that much at least, “and we shall see how much of the thinking you each have retained over the course of the semester. Today though, let us talk about that conceit.”
“’I think, therefore I am.’ Simple, no? Or perhaps you’d prefer ‘Fortune favours the brave’.” Juli smiled a bit. “Both are, in reality, true to some extent. If we did not have the brave few, the innovators that drove our sciences past their and our previous knowledge then new discoveries would never be made. In the quiet, but persistent, belief that they know what they do, why they do it, and that they are in the right… change happens. And the world is born again anew.”
“For today, split into pairs and discuss three ways you think that advances in science of made things better, and three ways that you think it has made things worse.”
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