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Critical thinking versus opinion.
In many TED Conversations I've noticed the fear to the critical thinking that has been replace by opinions.
Why is so easy to say nonsense without the minimal aproach to knowledge
Why this simple magical fantasies in our times?
Are we in the threshold of a new dark age?
What can we do to recover one of the most precious human gifts?
How can we unmask all the liers and hoax-makers?
Why we have to believe them?
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The art of questioning
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Jaime Lubin 10+
For example Mayakowsky in Russia. Garcia Lorca and Miguel Hernandez in Spain.
The critical thinking in poetic form is unveareable by dictators.
Mary M. 100+
Jaime, also, something that has always concerned me and has saddened me is to read about poets' life.
Some of their lives were so dark and troubling. Perhaps they perceived too much, thought too much, pondered over their own insecurities and heartaches too much....I don't know..........your example of Rimbaud, he was a teenager when he wrote a season in hell, was he not?? And alo a user of absynth and opium?? Drugs in the 1800"s? An escape!!!
We have come full circle with critical thinking sometimes affecting our relationships and our state of mind.......but sadly, I am no poet.....well, maybe I am.....free verse.....no on second thought, I am no poet.
Any appropriate youtube links Jaime, for my ramblings.....?
Salim Solaiman 50+
Mary M. 100+
Musicians also are feared. In China, did not the communist refuse to allow common people to have musical instruments in the past? I remember seeing this or reading about it somewhere.
Jaime Lubin 10+
Salim Solaiman 50+
In my humble opinion (I know Jaime don't like OPINION and this discussion is abvout that) we are yet have any "Education System" anywhere so far my knowledge goes.......what we have everywhere I better take it as a "Certfication System".....these just certify......and even that certification is flawed.....
It may sound peculiar, for sometime I sledom being bothered by any university closing down any of those creative subjects for which those tried to certify some people......
I have no example of any great poet, painter was made by any University.....sorry Mary, I may sound a not being empathetic to your feeling about universities....well soemtimes facts are really bitter..........but that's the perspective I look for it......
Jaime, I know there are lot of Media propaganda & hoax against country like China or ex Soviet Union (I am not telling they were all good, defintely they were tyranic to freedom of thoughts......is not it same here as well ?)......but fact is any Tyranic Regime are scared of Poets mostly than any other branch of creative people......
Mary M. 100+
I agree.
Also, I have said this to my daughter many times, I am a natural teacher.......it is in my blood......I love to teach others concepts, ideas, help children learn. It is what I do best....I had to go to university because I had no choice. They would not let me teach without the little paper.
And please do not apologize.....my view of university is slightly like yours.
What I was referring to was a cut in the arts programs in primary school.
To me it is a shame, because through it, is when many children are exposed to the arts for the first time in their young life. It is when they first hold a paint brush, and get their hands in modeling clay, and make ceramic figures and work with mixed media.....also, through the music teacher, they learn to play on various instruments, and read notes and listen to the great composers.............there is much to be said as to how the arts programs in elementary school benefit society.
Even if the child does not become an artist, his appreciation for the arts may impel him to be a consumer of art............buying paintings, and attending symphonies, and buying poetry books...etc.....
What do you think?
Salim Solaiman 50+
I fully agree with your thoughts about seeding seed of arts in kids .....again it seems to me so called certification system whether it's school or university it is either of very little in this regard or none....
Well one can argue in kids text book of school there are poetry or rhymes....yes those are there but what the school is doing with that, other then just making kids to memorize and vomit in exam paper?
I am neither an artist nor an expert critic of artist (there is saying that failure arists become critics :)) , may be I am just a buyer as you mentioned.....that didn't come from my education system ........may be some of that intension came from my family, from society around and my own natural instinct......
What I am doing now with my kids is I am trying to instill that in them......in my own way , forgetting what their school will be doing for them......
I am great admirer of science and technology but I am also fond of art even if I don;t understand it full so I want to make my kids such.....I want to keep them curious....I try to encourage them to be imaginative whenever I get time to do so......
Well I am going off topic here so stopping......
Have a great day.
pat gilbert 50+
Unfortunately Mao and his ilk are basically scared shitless so anyone who is a potential threat to them are attacked.
Jaime Lubin 10+
Mary M. 100+
This is one of many examples that always makes me think of wise king Solomon's words in Ecclesiaster 8:9
"I have seen, and there was an applying of my heart to every work that has been done under the sun, during the time that man has dominated man to his injury."