listen to this terrific talk about creativity and how thinking about it as something separate from yourself is not only helpful, but healthy and humbling. the three h's!
i love the part about the poet and the thunderous train of air.
have a sail around on the site after you're done there's all sorts of amazing talks about pretty much everything that's important in the world. be an activist from your livingroom!
it's easier to eat chips when you picket on your couch.
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Check this one out: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
"But something strikes you when you move to America and... around the world: every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects... Doesn't matter where you go... At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities,... and the bottom are the arts... there's [also] a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance. There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not? I think this is rather important. I think math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they're allowed to, we all do. We all have bodies, don't we? Did I miss a meeting? Truthfully, what happens is, as children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. And then we focus on their heads. And slightly to one side."
i watched that one too!!!
that guy is so funny. and wise.
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