Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Conversation with Ameeta

- All the behaviours you see in the interactions are more important than the words and pictures they write and draw. Those still maybe again things indicating a 'pleaser' mindset coming from a system that demands obedience and not creative thinking.
- The socio-cultural and management systems of schools and homes is creating too much emphasis in the children's minds to be good children rather than to be thinking or creative. There are certain beliefs that go with this "Its easier to manage obedient children." versus "Could it be easier to manage thinking children and come up with more effectiveness not just efficiency." Are we bogged down with efficiency and forgetting effectiveness and value of innovation? Is this that classrooms want rote learning and not questioning because exams only test that.
 - Reference: Book: Drawing on the right side of the brain.

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