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Lahi Na Paagi: Presented By: Kurt Daniel L. Amores

The document discusses Leonardo da Vinci's wide-ranging talents and skills, which included drawing, painting, architecture, engineering, anatomy, optics, mathematics, astronomy, cartography, geology, and writing. It also addresses some issues with compartmentalized education that limits creativity, conformity to groupthink, and the lasting impacts of colonial mentality in the Philippines over nearly 400 years of Spanish, American, and Japanese rule. Three questions are posed as a "test" of colonial mentality, related to continents on Earth, the first circumnavigation, and bathroom hygiene practices.

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Lahi Na Paagi: Presented By: Kurt Daniel L. Amores

The document discusses Leonardo da Vinci's wide-ranging talents and skills, which included drawing, painting, architecture, engineering, anatomy, optics, mathematics, astronomy, cartography, geology, and writing. It also addresses some issues with compartmentalized education that limits creativity, conformity to groupthink, and the lasting impacts of colonial mentality in the Philippines over nearly 400 years of Spanish, American, and Japanese rule. Three questions are posed as a "test" of colonial mentality, related to continents on Earth, the first circumnavigation, and bathroom hygiene practices.

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lahi na paagi

Presented by: Kurt Daniel L. Amores


Dr. Glen Martin Green
• almost unrivaled skills in drawing and painting
- lifelike yet sublime,
• skills in architectural design from fort
battlements to churches,
• skills in invention and technical engineering
from waterworks to tanks and flying
machines,
• prescient skills in anatomy encompassing the
human body and that of plants as well,
• skills in optics, mathematics, and astronomy
and
• skills in cartography and geology
• copious ability in language and writing to
record his thoughts for posterity.
Dilemma of Compartmentalized Education
• modern academic institutions
promote concentrated learning
but we should realize it is
intensely segregated along
traditional disciplinary lines.
Perils of Conforming to Groupthink
"Going with the flow" thinking
that conforms to already popular
conceptions also severely limits
creativity by making some
thoughts nearly ubiquitous while
most others just wither and die.
This pattern of conformity
promotes and almost insures
repeated boom and bust cycles.
Lasting Tragedy of Colonial Mentality
The Philippines suffers from a cause linked to it's
unique history, that of being a colony of no less
than three colonial powers:
Spain (from 1565 when
the Philippines was gradually brought by force of
arms under Legaspi until 1898),
the US (from 1898 until 1946), and
Japan (1942-1945 during WWII).

During these periods (totaling almost 400 years)


the
wishes and the thinking of these colonial powers
were imposed on Filipino thought and action
through overt coercion and often-violent
oppression.
3-point "Test" of Colonial Mentality
1) How many continents does the planet Earth have?

2) Who was the first person to circumnavigate the Earth?

3) When going to the CR, what system is better to use?


a) toilet paper, or
b) the kabo and water.
How many continents does the planet Earth have?
• Let's consider what a continent is. Is Cebu a continent? No it's too small, it's
an island. So what's the biggest Island? Greenland is the biggest, followed by
Borneo, New Guinea, and Madagascar - the fourth largest island.
• So a continent is a huge body of land bigger than Greenland. But there's one
more thing to consider: a continent is surrounded by water and not just any
water but marine water we call the ocean. A simple definition of a continent
then is a large body of land bigger than Greenland surrounded by ocean.
Who was the first person to circumnavigate
the Earth?
Enrique was the slave of Magellan
and the armada's interpreter. He was
perhaps captured or bought in the
early stages of the Portuguese siege
of Malacca, in which Magellan fought
prior to the famous voyage. Enrique
conversed with local people in the
Americas and the Pacific, but when
the armada reached what is now the
Gulf of Leyte, Enrique was able to
directly converse with the locals.
When going to the CR, what system is better to use?
a) toilet paper, or
b) the kabo and water.
Filipinos traditionally used the kabo, a small dipper for water.
These plastic dippers seemingly last forever and the cost of
the water they contain per use (about one liter) is so small
that one can consider the cost of this Filipino method to be
practically free. In contrast, toilet paper is anything but free,
since the manufacture of toilet paper requires a large
enterprise to produce.
First, large tracts of land have to be bought and secured
over decades, trees need to be planted and nurtured for
more than a decade until harvest. In the States trees are
usually harvested and transported to the paper mill with
diesel equipment and trucks, the mill has to be designed,
constructed and maintained, the mill needs to be staffed by
skilled personnel, it also demands fuel, electricity and a host
of processing chemicals to convert the trees into toilet paper.

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