Sadly for some reason, just about every system for educating (training) our kids seems to be aimed at killing off any creativity or curiosity and originality in them – And then our adult lives (or at least those of the great majority of us) work and society sets about killing any of those qualities that might have survived childhood and our schools.
Here are two looks at this depressing phenomena, one in a moderately serious talk by Sir Kenneth Robinson at TED, and the other takes a different route to give us the same message, this one being a wonderful animated film by Daniel Martínez Lara & Rafa Cano Méndez.
Both of these differing approaches to the same problem show us both the problem but also give us hope that there might be a way to avoid it, in that they also indicate that it does not have to be like that, it is possible to educate our kids in such a way that they retain their curiosity. And that it is possible for adults to force their lives onto a different and unexpected track.
But it remains depressing, this attitude so well summed up in the Jesuit saying “Give me your child before he is 7 and he is mine for life”. It is this sad fact that allows for the continuing existence of religions, political divisions and all the other dreary and negative influences on our lives.
So, here is the Robinson talk to start the ball rolling:-
And now, to see the same problem from a different perspective, here is the superb short film by the two Spanish animators “Alike”.
Well, I hope that one or both of these films got to you and gave you food for thought.
Any thoughts that either of them may have prodded you into thinking, please do share with us here. Always interesting to hear what people think about things……
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