A Whole New Mind (p.61~86)

1.what surprised me?
-It was surprising to know how the design also can change humans' mind. In the hostipal, improving the design of medical settings helps patients get better faster, and improving a school's physical environment could increase test scores by as much as 11 percent.
-It was also surprising that the sum total of design schools in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore thirty-five years ago was zero.
-The typical Philadelphia public high school has a daily attendance rate of 63 percent, at CHAD it's 95 percent. wow.


2.what did you already know?
- I knew that BMW is not just a car, it is "moving works of art that express the driver's love of quality"(79). I want to buy it~!:) but it is too expensive...:(


3.Brand new words

-crucial: involving an extremely important decision or result

-whimsical: erratic; unpredictable

-rebut: to refuse by evidence; to oppose

-*ubiquitous

-ample: plentiful; enough; abundant

-light-heartedness: carefree; cheerful

-sobriety: seriousness; quiet; gravity

-*atrophy

-deviant: not normal

-lament: to feel or express sorrow or regret for

-banality: devoid of freshness or originalit

-aqueduct: a bridgelike structure that carries a water

-deputy: a person appointed or authorized to act as a substitute for another or others.

-imperative: absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable

-gargantuan: gigantic

4. what changes are you going to make?
- I want to change to other school. my school looks like a prison.. haha...
- I also think that we need more design curriculums.

5.Further questions?
- who designed D.W.Poppy, and R.E.Mountain?? they both look like a prison.


6.what connection in real life?
-Now I understood the importance of the design and the reason that I do not want to go to school. It is because of the design,,,,,, or is it???

7.Quotations from the book that I liked...
-"Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace"(78).
-Giving the world something it didn't know it was missing(81).