Random Acts of Uncommon Sense

Part of the communication problem, as we shall see, is the strangeness of what is being found…. Very few people are synthesizing information being gathered in far-flung places.-- Marilyn Ferguson

common sense.  1. Native good judgment; sound ordinary sense. 2. The set of general unexamined assumptions as distinguished from specially acquired concepts: Common sense holds that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones.-- The American Heritage Dictionary

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.-- John Locke

Common sense is judgment without reflection which is shared by an entire class, a people, a nation, or the whole human race.-- Giovanni Battista Vico

Judging by common sense is merely another phrase for judging by first appearance…. The men who place implicit faith in their own common sense are, without any exception, the most wrong-headed and impracticable persons.-- John Stewart Mill

Sound English common sense -- the inherited stupidity of the race.-- Oscar Wilde

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. -- Albert Einstein

The trouble with people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that ain't so.-- Josh Billings

One day posterity will remember, this strange era, these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

What will people say?In these words lies the tyranny of the world,the whole destruction of our natural disposition,the oblique vision of our minds.These four words hold sway everywhere.-- Berthold Auerbach

Your Assignment

Respond to the quotations.Research one of the individuals quoted in Random Acts of Uncommon Sense.Take notes in Microsoft Word.*Create a PowerPoint Presentation.*You must document your sources!**Copy hyperlinks in notes. Insert hyperlinks in PowerPoint.

Undocumented information is invalid.

Your Assignment (continued)

Essay response in Microsoft Word. One page. Your opinions.Notes may be cut and pasted but must be documented! Factual information.PowerPoint presentation is six-page (minimum), documented, factual information.

Your Assignment (continued)

Create a folder.Name it: Uncommon SenseName your documents:

response.docnotes.docresearch.ppt

Put all documents in the folder titled: Uncommon Sense

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Due Thursday (at end of class).If you finish early research other individuals from Random Acts and make secondary presentations.On Friday we will have a brief discussion followed by a PowerPoint Open House. (Tour your classmates’ presentations.)