We have been taught to avoid edges. Instead we stay in the middle, where things are safe and comfortable. But on
the edge is where the greatest work of our lives lie.
On the edge is where the thing nobody has done before lies. On the edge lies the opportunity to do things only you could, imaginably.
On the edge is conference that is held in Fargo, or the book that seems like a career suicide. On the edge is where you risk doing something unexpected to deliver something delightful.
On the edge is where we stand when we're afraid to push publish or open the doors to the project or party we're not sure anyone will be attend.
While failing may mean we've found an edge, there's a difference between avoiding failure and moving towards success.
Find the edge, move towards it. "
The four walls of a school is supposed to be a safe Haven for every child who exists. Mind you, I said who exist because every child(both handicapped and able bodied) has the right to be in school.
Don't let it sound strange to you or try to imagine how a school for the handicap mean. A school from my definition is a place of learning not a place to understand the rudiments of mathematics, languages and all.
Learning could be of different forms and I would speak in my next post who should go to school.
However, a school should be a place where ideas are natured and where the future of creativity of a child is secured.
Unlike the great Wall of China, the four walls of a school is an irony in itself. A danger zone where hopes have been slaughtered and innovative minds silenced.
This is what I mean; a child is not frightened of being wrong, he is not frightened of failing. He would take his shot if he was given the chance and not care if he fails or not.
This is not to say failure is creativity itself or failure means a step towards success. It just simply means that a child out of his creative mind produces something and most times to succeed one has to fail because first try don't always succeed.
Sir Ken Robertson said, "if you're not prepared to be wrong, then you're not prepared to be original."
Failure has been stigmatized right from the kindergarten class, the art of being perfect from the very first attempt has dominated the society, schools and even the mind of everyone thereby shutting out the room for creativity. Every child from the start has been given the spirit of competition to be the top.
The School now educates people out of creativity.
Picasso once said, "we don't educate people into creativity, we educate people out of it"
Every child is born creative.
Like the publication from "The Compass", the four walls of a school should be a position where students can move towards the edges because it is in the edges that one finds creativity.
The four walls of a school should be flexible and not rigid.
We now have university students who have lost the art of creativity, they are afraid of going beyond the four walls of school because they know failure lies there and failure has been stigmatized.
This is the reason unemployment rate has increased because the number of university graduates have increased more than the number of jobs available and since there isn't any art of creativity in them any longer, they would have to return home to play video games.
One way or the other, or obviously we would discover that every problem a country is facing has its roots from the four walls of THE SCHOOL.
Something needs to be done with the school system.
If you have questions or comments, please share with me in the comments section.
really inspiring
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