"I understand what Yao said, but I'm still ghetto. That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture. Yao has played with a lot of black players, but I don't think he's ever played with a black player that really represents his culture as much as I represent my culture. Once Yao Ming gets to know me, he'll understand what I'm about."
I wish Yao Ming nothing but luck on his continued studied of American culture. This year, professor emeritus Ron Artest will turn everything Yao has learned about good old American tolerance on its head by showing him someone who really represents his culture. That apparently means being unrepentant about violence! Texas racists are going to love this guy! Happy learning Yao! Good luck Rockets!!!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
The Problem With Education ALSO A Great Story
First, the great story from this video, if you don't care to watch it even though it comes with my highest recommendation.
A six-year-old girl was in a drawing lesson in school. This little girl hardly ever paid attention but was very attentive during this particular lesson. So the teacher went over to her and asked her "what are you drawing?"
"I'm drawing a picture of God," said the girl.
"But nobody knows what God looks like," replied the teacher.
"They will in a minute."
Apparently this video is hopelessly old, but what Ken Robinson has to say is, to me anyway, profoundly true. It is one of my greatest wishes that these sort of ideas are widely accepted and implemented. The great Billy Wilder once said about screenwriting: "If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act." The problems of this world have been well documented and I won't bore you with them here. But to go about fixing them- the real crap, the emotional dysfunction, the fear of expression, the social boundaries that we ignorantly create- we need to fix the fundamentally flawed educational thought that molds us. And the way to do that is to nourish our innate creativity.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html (I had trouble embedding it. Sorry. Like you care. If there is a you.)
A six-year-old girl was in a drawing lesson in school. This little girl hardly ever paid attention but was very attentive during this particular lesson. So the teacher went over to her and asked her "what are you drawing?"
"I'm drawing a picture of God," said the girl.
"But nobody knows what God looks like," replied the teacher.
"They will in a minute."
Apparently this video is hopelessly old, but what Ken Robinson has to say is, to me anyway, profoundly true. It is one of my greatest wishes that these sort of ideas are widely accepted and implemented. The great Billy Wilder once said about screenwriting: "If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act." The problems of this world have been well documented and I won't bore you with them here. But to go about fixing them- the real crap, the emotional dysfunction, the fear of expression, the social boundaries that we ignorantly create- we need to fix the fundamentally flawed educational thought that molds us. And the way to do that is to nourish our innate creativity.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html (I had trouble embedding it. Sorry. Like you care. If there is a you.)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
