Does magic lead to brain power?

Keith Barry talks about how the brain works, and how basic some things can be but due to the brain magic that he does you can see that he makes it so you can read the persons eyes, which makes your brain process.


It intrigued me to see that learning how people think leads to the same process to everybody.Also the skills he had to make people believe that they were being touched but really he was just moving around that person which made their brains think they were being touched and they actually felt it. The questions i would have if i were in the audience would be what things in the brain make everybody think the same because there are some part where everyone HAS to think differently. I wonder how he could make people feel like they are in a daze but in reality it is just the way the persons brain functions. The most brought up question from the audience was "how can somebody just be read so easily by looking at that person?". I feel the magic of the brain is brought to you by the way your senses are. If you are uptight your senses are harder to read them when you are relaxed. He also proves that when he has simple tasks the reader follows the directions but doesn't realize there is a much easier way for the task to be done. For you as the reader, do you believe that the human brain is functioned by the way your mind tells it to? Why or why not? Do you believe that the human brain has a way to be hypnotized into believing what one tells you?

Are schools killing creativity or nurturing it?

Ken Robinson believes that students in today's world are not being able to use their own creativity. What would your opinion be when you think of teachers and how they are teaching their students these days?

This TED talk intrigued me first off because just by reading the title i automatically agreed with what i thought he was going to be talking about mostly. This then made me think about what schools could do different instead of taking the creativity and imagination of ones mind. This video raises many questions i can ask myself like, why has the curriculum changed? Shouldn't these children in the new century be able to have the same goals as some people 20 years ago who were students? Have teachers taken out a curriculum where students have it all handed it to them and they do not have to be imaginative? Ken Robinson says " Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything, when i was a student if you had a degree you had a job. If you didn't have a job its because you didn't want one." This means that yes you can get through school, but does a degree matter these days? I believe that when you have a degree then you get into a 4 year college which gives you an occupation in the end. A question I have for you as the reader is do you think that schools have changed over time looking at the curriculum? If so how and what do you think has changed about it?

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