Well… I really don’t like to plan things in a long term, because life can change in any moment. Life always surprises you with unexpected things, in a good or in a bad way, so I prefer to live and enjoy the present! Although, it is inevitable to make up an idea of what will you be doing in a few more years.
In 2 more years I will have finished my career, Art. Then, I think I would choose one of this three options:…to continue studying something else, immediately; start to work ; or just take a break and..i don´t know, travel? Hahah..or work in something momentary to earn money and then go on a loooong trip!.. I would love to live in another country at least one year!, just for fun and to get some new experiences, work, meet new people, etc. By the other hand, I would like to finish my career and then work and study something else, like psychology but always related to art and pedagogy. Apart of being an artist, I really like pedagogy; work with teenagers and with the creativity process, therapy art, etc…everything that is related with people and their minds, so experiment with that and join those things with art. So, I think in 5 more years, I would be probably doing art classes and producing art in my free time to emerge as an artist too… Personally, I think I will not be married or with kids or something like that!, I would be so young for that, you know! Haha…I will be living alone..So well, If I had the opportunity to travel, I would probably take it too! But sooner or later I think I would return to my country to make my life here…well, If destiny doesn´t say the contrary!… haha.
Friday 12 June 2009
Monday 1 June 2009
Sir Ken Robinson´s talk...
Well, after a long struggle with my internet, finally I could watch Sir Ken Robinson’s talk! Haha anyway..Very interesting and funny too! I think as Sir Ken Robinson says, “we are all interested in education”, and when it’s time to talk about it everybody has an opinion, because we care of it (we must to!) ‘cause it shows how children are being prepared to future; you know… it is supposed that we are educating people for life, for living in a best world and to contribute on it.I really agree when Sir Robinson says that humans have an extraordinary capacity of creativity, but unfortunately schools don´t improve on it. I almost think that creativity is as important as other subjects like Math, Literature, etc. but it is obviously that in this system engineers, for example, are more productive than artists, as well as you know, because we aren’t so helpful in the economy of a country, for example, and that’s what the state is interested in!. If it isn´t, the state should invest more money in art and culture, but they don´t do it. Anyway, I think that’s one of the reasons education is in a deep trouble, because it is part of a monetary system (mercantile?) that needs people in the future to produce what the system wants to.
Anyway, I think creativity is in everywhere, don´t matter who you are, so the thing is that schools are educating people out of their creative capacities, so when Sir Robinson talks about the fear to be wrong, he’s telling that the absence in children’s creativity tend them to be not original, because they are afraid to be wrong. So, schools forget that intelligence has many different views, and that it is not only mathematic or science, it is dynamic and interactive too, so schools don´t give too much importance to the capacity of singing, dancing or painting. As Sir Robinson said; “we (referring to schools) focus on their heads”, (and jokes about some people that use their body just to transport their heads and for nothing else!), “they live in their heads!”, he says, and they forget they have other tools to think and express themselves.
Anyway… I really liked the way Sir R. insisted in the importance of education and future. As I said in the beginning of this post, we have to educate children for the future, to face it, helping them and educating them, using the “gift of the human imagination” in a wisely way, because original ideas are really helpful to reinvent some things. We all need the capacity of innovation that children and young people have. So.. Do schools kill creativity?..mmm.. maybe yes! So, leave the kids alone! Haha…and let them show us their talents and all their ideas in other ways.
Anyway, I think creativity is in everywhere, don´t matter who you are, so the thing is that schools are educating people out of their creative capacities, so when Sir Robinson talks about the fear to be wrong, he’s telling that the absence in children’s creativity tend them to be not original, because they are afraid to be wrong. So, schools forget that intelligence has many different views, and that it is not only mathematic or science, it is dynamic and interactive too, so schools don´t give too much importance to the capacity of singing, dancing or painting. As Sir Robinson said; “we (referring to schools) focus on their heads”, (and jokes about some people that use their body just to transport their heads and for nothing else!), “they live in their heads!”, he says, and they forget they have other tools to think and express themselves.
Anyway… I really liked the way Sir R. insisted in the importance of education and future. As I said in the beginning of this post, we have to educate children for the future, to face it, helping them and educating them, using the “gift of the human imagination” in a wisely way, because original ideas are really helpful to reinvent some things. We all need the capacity of innovation that children and young people have. So.. Do schools kill creativity?..mmm.. maybe yes! So, leave the kids alone! Haha…and let them show us their talents and all their ideas in other ways.
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