Only the individual who has never written and never dealt with images can say that there are no questions in his sphere, just a solid mass of answers...You are right to demand that an artist take a conscious attitude toward his work, but you confuse two concepts: resolving a question and posing a question correctly. Only the second is required of the artist. In Anna Karenina and Onegin not one question is resolved, but you are satisfied solely because all the questions in them are posed correctly.
- Anton Chekhov
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From the age of six I was in the habit of drawing all kinds of things. Although I had produced numerous designs by my fiftieth year, none of my works done before my seventieth is really worth counting. At the age of seventy-three I have come to understand the true form of animals, insects and fish and the nature of plants and trees. Consequently, by the age of eighty-six I will have made more and more progress, and at ninety I will have got closer to the essence of art. At the age of one hundred I will have reached a magnificent level and at one hundred and ten each dot and each line will be alive. I would like to ask those who outlive me to observe that I have not spoken without reason.
- Hokusai
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The End of Education
Wes Fryer posted this very elegantly put-together video entitled "Learning to Change." It makes an intriguing argument in favor of "the end of education, and the beginning of learning." Check out the cast list at the end of the film.
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Isn't the destruction of the curriculum that guided those in the 19th and 20th centuries (Latin, Greek, Rhetoric etc.) partly to blame for the poor education of America's youth? We constantly look for the newest innovation or fad to direct our course in teaching kids, but they seem to lack the most basic rudiments of reasoning and find the simplest of poems impossible to understand. Like linking sustainability to the Odyssey. Doesn't that really just cheat kids out of understanding a class novel and give them common sense tips to improve the environment that they could read about in the newspaper and will be out of date in four years anyway?
1 comment:
Isn't the destruction of the curriculum that guided those in the 19th and 20th centuries (Latin, Greek, Rhetoric etc.) partly to blame for the poor education of America's youth? We constantly look for the newest innovation or fad to direct our course in teaching kids, but they seem to lack the most basic rudiments of reasoning and find the simplest of poems impossible to understand. Like linking sustainability to the Odyssey. Doesn't that really just cheat kids out of understanding a class novel and give them common sense tips to improve the environment that they could read about in the newspaper and will be out of date in four years anyway?
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