Y Agwedd Greadigol
'Discipline' is a double edge sword.
I find students who have been taught with too much discipline rather than
self-discipline are hard to work with and it is often an excuse for creative
laziness.
What is it with
teachers that find the need to be seen as the font of all knowledge? You see them
rule their little kingdoms (classrooms) like demi-gods or gurus. These
teachers, often those with the least actual knowledge, rule with a rod of iron
and any student who does not come under their spell is systematically destroyed. Terrible education, which many of us will recognise.
Yet some students respond
to these strict discipline gurus and regard them as good teachers and their information as truth, despite the fact that all the
science of education proves it is not. Why do they see this as the way to learn?
Because it is easier to live in a dictatorship than it is to live in a
democracy. Easier to follow than to lead. Easy to be a sheep rather than a
sheep dog. In the end, that kind of
educational rule is about creative laziness and teachers with the lest
understanding, seem to be the worse culprits.
These students if they
do make it out into the real world of work, are a nightmare to work with. They
are hard to direct, very set in their ways unable to be creative and requiring
absolute direction. The creative spark is not free and giving but clichéd and
subservient. (Empty Space and There are no secrets Peter Brook)
Cymru Creadigol .
Education
must seek to nurture self-discipline
and creative independents This is what will make people employable. We do not
want robots. We do not want unthinking artists and actors. It is the harder
route but it is the better route by far.
Find your element! Find your discipline!
Seek your art. seek out your truth
'Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
There are NO gurus!
Only signs in the sand and those signs point to you!
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