Deep flight challenger and the org of this planet

The deepest trench or depth of this world is the Mariana trench. And the deep flight challenger will be to undergo 5 missions to visit the deepest parts of planet earth to see what goes on beneath.

The company behind, virgin oceanic, funds such researches and the man behind. Died in 2007, now renewed by Welsh, who hopes to carry out this expedition in 2011.

I realized that excellence comes when we push ourselves-human, to the limit.

I also realized that there are many organizations out there who has the money n capabilities, but not the driving courage for the missions.

Putting their lives at stake for the sake of testing the human limits. Would I do that?

Afraid of being silly

I realized that people are many times afraid to be classified as 'not knowing' in today's society. I believe living in information age has made us fear to be labelled as one who doesn't know.

The other side of the equation is also true, where people in this age ARE expected to know! The demand for excellence is applied not to myself alone, but inevitably to people around as well.

Example was in my usual Sunday class. One of my student refused to acknowledge that she was not listening during class. Not that I will punish or scold, in my opinion, a student who wasn't paying attention will lose out in class in any-way to one who pays full attention and process those info into thoughts.

Another instance was another student who gave me a loss look yet unwilling to acknowledge that she is lost.

What's wrong with not-knowing?
Where are the values in honesty, humility and teachability placed in the ranking against pride, show-off and arrogance?