The greatness know as being good... also a list of amazing things.

            Alright, intrinsic good. What is it, examples, and how have I experienced it? Challenge accepted. Intrinsic good is, as everyone says, something that is good for its on basic sake. I’m not sure exactly how to rephrase this. It just is what it is. It is something that just makes life better by being there, not doing something. The mountains cause great harm for people trying to climb them, or pass them, but they are intrinsically good because of their beauty, their presence, and power. Without intrinsic good, a person would never be content, never reach that “inner piece” everyone strives for. Ok you want examples, I’ll give you examples.

Puns- “barges? Barges? We don’t need no stink’in barges!”

Christmas lights

Accents

Inside jokes

Popcorn

Corndogs

Pets- my fish Finnick Odair Buxman and dogs =)

Finnick Odair =)- READ THE HUNGER GAMES!!!!!

HUNGER GAMES!!!!!!!!!!

Snow

Owls

Trees

People who climb trees

Cheese

Icicles

Music- More recently The Airborne Toxic Event and the Decemberists

The feeling of clothes fresh out of the dryer

Lighting!!!! I really want to make Tesla Coils!!!!!!

Castles

Greek Mythology

            And now a personal experience. Let’s meet my best friend and his girlfriend Alex and Megan. Alex has been my best friend for a couple months and my friend for a little over a year. Megan has been my friend for 8 months, and Alex’s girlfriend for 3 months. (all dates are approximate ish) Since we all go to the same school, though different grades, we spent uber amount of time together. Since Greeley was boring, we spent a lot of time hanging out in parks just lying in the grass and talking. Now here is where the intrinsic part comes in. Our favorite thing to do was to lie in the grass at night, wrap up in blankets and just look at the stars and clouds. We didn’t talk about how the stars could help our lives; we just said “wow those are amazing. Isn’t God great.” The last night I spent in college, we did this. We went to our favorite park and laid down by the lake to stare at the amazing starry sky. After an hour or so we started playing our favorite songs on my Iphone and basically spent the last couple hours together admiring God’s creation. That’s what intrinsic good is and I remember God, as well as my friends, every time I look in the sky and see Orion’s Belt. I sure hope this makes sense.

Ok now the questions. What exactly makes something unitrisictaly good?

            How much of our life should we focus on the intrinsic aspect and how much on the usefulness aspect of something?

For the wierd super smart French man

Response to the first question.

            Freire proposes some very radical and interesting ideas towards education. He describes education as a place where students and teachers are on the same level and they teach each other. They are part of the world and make it what is. This is in contrast to the “banking” education method where teacher spew facts and expect students to memorize and not question them. I’m not sure Freire actually changed my definition but he changed my view on it. While I still believe education is the process where students are taught the concepts of life, I never really saw its purpose in regards to the entire world besides just a stepping stone to life. Feire taught me that education can radically change how a society thinks and acts. If one is taught simply to regurgitate, then that’s all they do and the pattern increases and society stands still and no advances are made in technology. If one is thought to question, to think, and to act, then society increases in leaps and bounds. While there is a place for the teacher to be higher than the student, class should also be full of discussion and questioning. Where would we be in Newton never asked why apples fell or if Franklin never asked what would happen if he put metal keys on a kite in a lighting storm? Floating around the Earth and getting struck by lightning, that’s where.