Even more annoying about tripe like this is the presumption that everyone agrees on the same achieve/success/money definition of education. It's enraging. What happened to personal fulfillment, insight or joy?
-Lew Schwartz On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Michael Brady <[email protected]>wrote: > On Feb 8, 2013, at 1:15 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/22/top-10-skills- > children-learn-from-the-arts/ > > How prescient! How post-prehensile! Valerie Strauss, the WasPo author, > opens > the article with: > > "You don t find school reformers talking much about how we need to train > more > teachers in the arts, given the current obsession with science, math, > technology and engineering (STEM)..." > > Why didn't she list the four disciplines in the order they are given in the > acronym, viz., science, technology, engineering, and math? Isn't she paying > attention? IF she isn't, why should anyone else? > > Strauss then refers to a book "The Artistic Edge: 7 Skills Children Need to > Succeed in an Increasingly Right Brain World," written by Lisa Phillips. > Right > brain worlds, really? Clichi, anyone? In the rest of the article, Strauss > incorporates an entire blog entry written by Phillips, titled "The Top 10 > Skills Children Learn from the Arts." > > Okay, 7 skills children need, 10 skills children learn ... whatever. > > Phillips says in skill 1 of the blog: "Being able to think on your feet, > approach tasks from different perspectives and think outside of the box > will > distinguish your child from others." Think on your feet, approach a task > from > a new vantage point, but not be able to write 'outside the clichi." > > I looked at the 10 skills that can be learned from "the arts." Guess what? > They can be learned from "the sports" too. Or "the sciences" or "the > trades" > or "the militaries." > > This is trivial, small beer, thin gruel. Nothing. Berg, you should find > something a bit more substantial and a challenge to your googling skills. > > > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady
