Music, art and brain

"Creativity is like learning to read is learned"

A night visit to a Cole saw a six concentradísima years drawing. I asked: "What are you drawing?". He replied: "The face of God."

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"Nobody knows how," I said. "Best - she said while dibujar-, now I know."

Every child is an artist.

Because every child believes blindly in his own talent. The reason is they have no fear of being wrong ... Until the system is gradually taught the error exists and should be ashamed of it.

Children are also wrong.

If you compare the picture of the girl with the Sistine Chapel, certainly yes, but if you let God draw their own way, that girl will keep trying. The only mistake in a school is to penalize the creative risk.

The tests do exactly that.

I'm not against the tests, but to turn them into the center of the educational system and notes its sole purpose. The girl drew gave us a lesson: if you're not prepared to go wrong, never be right, you will copy only. You will not be the original.

Can you measure intelligence?

The question is not how much intelligence, but what kind of intelligence have. Education should help us all to find our own and not just encauzarnos to the same type of talent.

Fast what is that kind of talent?

Our education system was conceived para meet the needs of industrialization: talent hand only to be disciplined hierarchical technical preparation work with varying degrees and paragraph Officials SERVE the modern state.

Labor is still needed.

But industrialization Is No More! We are in OTHERWISE OF PRODUCTION WITH OTHER: requirements, other hierarchies. We do not need millions of workers and technicians with the same skills, but our system Follow Forming. And increases unemployment.

But we repeat: Innovation!

They ask the same that of criminalizing in their organizations, colleges and universities. We have stigmatized the risk and error and instead, we encourage passivity, conformity and repetition

There is nothing more than a passive class.

Are you a teacher, right? Classes son passive paragraph Incentives For Being quietly and take notes that will repeat older child than the risk it participate and maybe screw up. That way, after 20 years of Education in five levels consisting paragraph A to form Factories and offices that no longer exist, nobody is innovative.

What are the consequences?

Most citizens waste their lives doing things they do not really care about, but they believe they must do to become productive and accepted. Only a small minority are happy with their work, and often those who challenged the imposition of mediocrity system.

The Lucky...

They are those who refused to take the great anti creative error: to believe that only a few gifted with talent.

"Be humble: accept that you did not touch".

False! We are all gifted in something! It is to discover what. That should be the main function of education. Today, however, is focused on cloning students. And you should do the opposite: to discover what is unique in each of them.

Can creativity does not come in the genes?

It is pure method. You learn to be creative and learn to read. Creativity can be learned even after the system has made us unlearn.

For example ...

I'm from Liverpool and I know the school where they received music lessons my friend Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison ... My God! That music teacher in her class had 50 percent of the Beatles!

And...

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. McCartney has explained to me that the guy put them a classical album and went into the corridor to smoke.

Despite the school were geniuses.

Elvis Presley did not admit in the club song of her school because "out of tune". To me, instead, a poliovirus, I was admitted to the board of the Royal Ballet...

That, sir, they matched full.

There I met someone who had been a school dropout eight years. Unable to sit hear an explanation.

A hyperactive child?

He still had not invented it, but they had already invented psychologists, so she took one. And it was good: he spoke to her alone five minutes; he left his radio on and went to get the mother to the waiting room; together they spied what the girl was alone in the office and ... was dancing!

Thinking with their feet.

This is what the mother told the psychologist and so began a career that led to this girl, Gillian Lynne, the Royal Ballet; to found your company and create the choreography of Cats and The Phantom of the Opera Lloyd Webber.

If he had listened to his notes, today would be frustrated.

It would be anything but mediocre. Education should focus to find our element: the area where our capabilities and desires converge with reality. When you reach the music universe resonates in you , a feeling to which all are called.