but we educate them out of it...", i thinks this is the first time i heard somebody speaking of such a complex group of ideas about education without making me yawn, and actually make me laugh about it. when you are able to explain your thoughts with regular everyday stories, you not only get the idea better, you get interested in the topic.
Now about that line that remain in my head for a while, i agree with allmost everything else that he said, and this is true, you have tonces of kids, teenagers and even adults, that live their lifes unhappy because it doesn't ... fit... 'cause they study things that don't want, they work in jobs that don't like... they made their whole life around a career that they never wanted. BUT, there're although people that there is happy... there are people that like what they studied.. their careers fits with them, and they are not even close to being artists. If someone is a lawyer and a good one, and since we was little ke like to speak and discuss everything, he may have born been a lawyer, maybe not born been, but born to become. Like for saying, is it possible to think that einstein was born musician, and not a physic? ok, maybe if he had a different childhood the stoy would been that way, but anyway he had an extraordinary capacity to understand how and why everything happend, and an extraordinary capcity to make relations between subjects, and that lead him to the physic, and we was not only great, but happy.
so besides from applauding everything else Ken Robinson said , i will correct him, that kids are not born ALL artist, some of them are born something that you can consider normal (like university normal) but even then, we sometimes educate them out of it.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI think that you don't undersand well the conference, what Robinson WANTS to say is if we cultivate ANY of the many skills that kids have, we could have a healthy and happy society, he speaks about arts because that case is the most tragic and common in current society, but the current educational sistem promote the classical cientific-humanist idea of "Culture" or even better "Educated" man. And arts are not included on that classification.
So, if the kid show that had some skills that are good for Law, we -as a society- must cultivate subjects that improve that skills, and enventually, he could become in an excellent profesional, because all his formation was focus on HIS PARTICULAR character.
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