Story of my life, ab On Feb 9, 2013, at 6:02 AM, William Conger wrote:
> All this talk about kids and what and how they learn and whether or not it is > practical is not interesting beyond the level of magazine articles. Yes, kids > learn differently (see Gardiner's Multiple Intelligences) and yes, except for > the privileged children the the very rich, they need to find ways to be useful > in society. There are, obviously, many ways to do that. On a forum like this, > with many artists and other creatives on board, it's not going to be easy to > argue against nurturing kids' imaginations. > > As a youngster who only cared about art I never gave a moment's thought to how I > would survive as an artist or at all when I grew up, despite the consternation, > worry and hand-wringing of Depression-era parents. And I always had a part-time > job from the age of thirteen until college and after college I never was one day > without a job until age seventy. Even now I work every day and earn money with > my art. Without inheritance I was able to raise a family and live pretty well > and give my kids debt free educations at top schools. Maybe I was just lucky > yet I do believe people should pay their own ways and, if they need to, earn > whatever is required to do what they want. > > So, it's a blend of following one's own drummer while also being useful to > society that make the most sense in a democratic capitalistic society. > Education curricula and societal ideals should provide for both. What's more > annoying than a society that degrades imagination and creativity for the sake of > emphasizing routine job skills? And what's more demoralizing than people who > think their uniqueness and so-called free-spirit creativity entitles them to be > fully supported on a public dole? > wc > > > > ________________________________ > From: joseph berg <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, February 9, 2013 3:41:08 AM > Subject: Re: Skills children learn from the arts > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:37 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Lew Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Even more annoying about tripe like this is the presumption that everyone >>> agrees on the same achieve/success/money definition of education. It's >>> enraging. What happened to personal fulfillment, insight or joy? >>> >> They've become unaffordable luxuries for more and more people in the >> 21st-c. >> > > > - Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of thing > that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't > have time for all that. > > George Carlin
