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What do the other 98 out of 100 children do when they have grown up only learning to dance because "mama" (or any other significant person in their life) can see that "they are a dancer", but in reality they aren �t?
Don �t get me wrong, I LIKE what Sir Robinson has to say, but idealism and reality have to have a middle point that is "real".
Hi Douglas. I am not so sure that Mr Robinson meant it in that way. I think that he meant that the small number of pupils who seem to be fidgity in class may have wonderful skills (other than acedemic) that could be observed by both teachers and parents in a responsible and mature way before "deciding" what may be best for the child. �After careful �observations maybe then the child �s interests could be channelled into something wonderful for them. �I would be very open to his ideas really and with a little effort I feel sure that a lot could be achieved for those students.
thank you... soo inspiring... I �ll try to dig out my creativity :-)
Sometimes I feel like 5-year-old wondering why the world look like this... Maybe we all should try to change a little bit... and in the end we make a big change :-)
Dear Moravc and others, here �s a quote from the last paragraph of my loooong paper on Shakespeare �s King Lear and E.Bond �s Lear and you �ll get my answer to what you just said there ...
"... However, Bond �s intention was not to
tell us that there is no way out and that we are in for an unchangeable bleak
and gloomy future. Both he and Shakespeare gave an example that change IS
possible and should take place, not within the governments, but within our own
beings, and that "even the most mechanised human being has only got his
windows nailed up, or bricked in."[1]
The choice is ours � to vegetate within the bricked space or make a timely
breakthrough and not let the decadent government have the last laugh. The words
ending Lars Von Trier �s film "Dancer in the Dark" encourage us to make the
right choice:
Caroline, I agree with you. I just wanted to introduce the potential negative side to the discussion. If everybody gets super excited about the concept, then suddenly every child with attention, learning, or motivation problems is "a dancer". The problem being that the concept becomes an excuse that parents can use to prevent having to take the blame for something that is their own fault.
