12.8.10

Industrial application to almost everything.

Ok, so Sir Ken Robinson said that we need to change this industrial model to that of an agricultural model. This is easier said than done, the industrial model has infected almost every facet of our lives and society including the most organic, agriculture. So what he is asking for isn't just an overhaul of school systems, its the complete overthrow of how our society approaches everything. Daniel Pink, then displayed how we are not motivated by money when it comes to higher learning activities (unless we are engineers, greedy bastards) this is antithetical to the entire system upon which our society is based, throw money at a problem and it will be fixed. Creativity is not something that can be bought, as much as our capitalistic culture trys to quantify and montify art, music, and culture it will never be sucessful. Creators are self motivated, when I write a song I clearly am not thinking I am going to make a million dollars from it, I do it cause it is my passion, no amount of money will make me produce a better song. We have to learn to leave business models to businesses and operate our schools and creative expression independantly and free from our corporate greed or you'll end up will thousands of Hannah Montana's, and dear god who wants that.

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  2. Change change change! It seems to be the latest buzz word. I agree it needs to happen but like mention it doesn't happen at once, in a video, or with a snap of the fingers. Hopefully as teachers we can start in our classroom by really letting kids make mistakes, make music, and make learning meaningful to them.

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  3. You make a good point about our society thinking that if they throw money at something then all will be well. That seems to be the philosophy of the DOE and ESEA. Businesses are giving money to privatize schools,as in charter schools, thinking that if they were run more like a business than all students will succeed. It doesn't work like that.

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