tonight i'm thinking on dreaming. a friend and i had dinner today at el charros and we had a conversation on surreality versus reality.
from preschool to now i've been told i need a reality check. to all of you have told me that, i say the hell with it. why focus on what we've got when we can work with what we don't have? how can we create something better if it's made of different kinds of materials?
i will continue to live and die wanting a world where we are given promotions based on the content of our character. i want a world where fostering expression, creativity and being different are given more attention than the standardized SAT/GRE robots we continue to churn out. For goodness sakes, how many more math/chem/phys/bio majors do we need to figure out that the world is churning out more problems for them than they can fix?
beautiful beautiful beautiful, love love love, thank you thank you thank you. what other words does our Earth really need?
I had a discussion with another aspiring teacher during a seminar last week in which she told me she'd never tell the children in her classroom that they could be anything they wanted because (& I quote) "that's bullshit".
ReplyDeleteHer logic was that we are setting kids up for disappointment if they walk into our classrooms with the desire to be super man or a princess, because it's just not practical.
I spent the next few minutes trying to politely disagree vehemently... a skill I'm learning more and more every day.
WHY would anyone want to tell a child that she can't be anything she wants? That the world is not their oyster? That the possibilities are not endless? If a first grader walks into my classroom wanting to be superman, you better believe I'm going to give him a cape.
That child will be forced into a life of "reality checks" for the next 80 years. His creativity and imagination will be shoved into boxes and a great portion of his worth judged on whether or not he can fill in the correct scantron bubble. So while he's six, he needs to believe he can fly if only because he should be able, in his adulthood, to look back on a time that he believed he could.
Besides, Kate Middleton just became a princess...
Love you, darling Lei!
Lauren.
You go girl. I can only hope to have the opportunity to inspire others as you will... sometimes it feels like I'm too busy trying to inspire myself. Gotta work on my multi-tasking I suppose. Thinking about you--can't wait to see ya this weekend.
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