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4. True, false or not stated? Specify what is said in the video about this.
A. Elon Musk’s school is situated on the premises of the SpaceX headquarters.
B. Before Elon set up his own school, his children attended a regular public one.
C. Josh Dahn, one of the first teachers Elon hired, previously worked as an engineer.
D. Classes are formed on the basis of the students’ abilities, regardless of age.
E. The most talented students receive financial aid to cover the tuition.
F. The school aims to prepare their students for Ivy League Universities.
Speak!
5. Here are three key values of the school. Explain what they mean and how they affect the learning
process.
1) Be an alternative to the age segregation model.
2) Focus on problem solving.
3) Gamification.
Dancing with the dead - Madagascar
This ritual is mostly followed in Karnataka where newborn babies are thrown off the 50-feet high Sri Santeswar
temple. Before you jump to a conclusion; the babies are obviously caught by the family in a cloth. Couples who are
blessed with a baby after taking a vow at the temple follow this 500-year-old tradition. It is believed to bring good
luck to the babies.
In Papua New Guinea, as part of a rite of passage, a boy will go into a Hans Tambaran, or a
hut, and his skin will be cut and scarred to look like a crocodile. The ritual is a symbol of a
boy being eaten by a crocodile and coming back to life as a man.
Rites of passage are as old as time, and today, many young kids go through it in some shape or form, be it bar
mitzvah, sweet sixteen, or humiliating prom. But for the Satere Mawé Tribe, they force their boys to shove their
hands into gloves full of ants that inflict painful bites. They wear the gloves twenty times for ten minutes each time
as they dance around. The ants are not any normal house ant but the bullet ant, an ant that got its name because its
bite feels like being shot by a bullet.
Vegetarian Festival – Thailand
Don’t let the name fool you, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival isn’t all about vegetables. During the
festival, people abstain from meat for nine days. That may sound bad enough, but it gets much,
much worse. To honor the animals, they shove sharp objects through their mouths and cheeks.
This tradition in the Dani tribe in Indonesia takes bizarre to a whole new level. When a family member passes away,
women from this tribe have to suffer physical pain besides suffering from emotional grief. And to do so, they cut off
a part of their fingers. This is supposedly done to 'satisfy ancestral ghosts.' No wonder why men do not follow this
custom. This custom is forbidden now, but older people still follow the ritual.
In Spain, at the festival of El Colacho, men dressed in red and yellow, like devils, run through the streets insulting and
whipping people. During this, newly born babies are laid out on mattresses in the streets while these men dressed as
devils leap over them. It’s believed this was once a fertility ceremony that mixed with Christianity to symbolize the
triumph over evil.
11. Have you ever participated in such a tradition? Where? How was it?
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16. Do you think that dangerous rituals or traditions that cause pain should be banned? Justify.
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