Thursday, January 14, 2010

Post of Shortness +1

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
- Sir Ken Robinson

He talked about how the education system in the United States keeps trying to streamline things like the auto industry.  But a car has no interest in the processes that inform its life.  Unlike a child.  We are not teaching subjects; we are teaching people.  Which is wonderfully freeing in a way, for someone like me who is afraid of parenting.  It's not like passing a test.  More akin to keeping a garden.  You can't make a plant grow.  You can only create an environment in which growth is possible, and encouraged.

The fourth day in a row I've come to church.  I keep finding reasons.  It's not so bad, though; I'm getting a lot done.  Friday: straight home after work.  Which means I'll miss a day of blogging for the first time.

I'll write something amazing, though.  I just won't be able to post it up for a couple of days.

-J

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