Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Mountain Climbing Insurance

Oxford and Cambridge ask kids some really weird questions in their application interviews. They say it is an attempt to identify creative thinking and understanding rather than learned knowledge. Anyways, check these things out.

You should pick one or more and answer with a comment. Here's mine: Enough thermostats put together could think.

Oxford

What does it mean to be happy?
(philosophy and modern languages)

How would you market a rock band?
(economics and management)

If it could take form, what shape would the novel "To the Lighthouse" become?
(English)

Can a thermostat think?
(experimental psychology)

How do you organize a successful revolution?
(history)

Is it morally wrong to attempt to climb a mountain?
(theology)


Cambridge

If I were a grapefruit, would I rather be seedless or non-seedless?
(medicine)

Do you think you're clever?
(law)

How would you poison someone without the police finding out?
(social and political sciences)

Would you say that greed is good or bad?
(land economy)

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/08/odd.oxford.questions/index.html?imw=Y#cnnSTCOther1

2 comments:

Carol and Dan said...
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Carol and Dan said...

Here's mine: Go to a MacDonald's in Omaha, Nebraska and put a sign out front that says, "Hamburgers will be made of tofu from now on"
.....................c.