Comments on: Rethinking Education Pt.9: Kinesthetic Literacy

By: Vitaly Pimenov

Vitaly Pimenov — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:56:19 +0000

My appreciation, Ruxandra!

You know, the more I read and see about innovations, new ways of doing
old things, fake creativity and fake need for changes labeled all over the place,
the more I feel that the best thing we can do is reinventing the wheels.

I wish everybody would be reinventing the wheel (just for fun, for themselves,
for the soul) and not inventing weapons, shooting at schools, getting drunk
every evening, dreaming of world enslavement and so on. Sorry, my fantasies run too fast

I believe in reinventing the wheel and, furthermore, I’m trying to do it every single day. Maybe I’m a moron, but in this case I prefer to be a moron.

p.s. It’s great that article is in Romanian, sometimes I feel English is too much used and too little we can truly say in English, thus I think we should never give up our own languages, but encourage people to learn them You’ve just encouraged me!

By: Ruxandra

Ruxandra — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:42:56 +0000

I must confess yesterday I had doubts when you said philosophers are the ones who can reinvent the teachers. But today reading an article about the same concern… teachers who dont teach (an article by Dragos Butuzea -unfortunately is written in Romanian – http://www.filozofie.ro/jos-profesorii-sus-filozofii/ )… I’ve realised that you were right. Philosophers can reinvent teachers because they ask the “right” question: why?/why so? (and they don’t take for granted anything).
Maybe I just reinvented the wheel, but I needed this clarification!

Best,
Ruxandra

By: Vitaly Pimenov

Vitaly Pimenov — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:27:41 +0000

Thanks, friends!

Just today I had a conversation about teaching “why’s”
and teaching teachers “why to teach ‘why’s'”

That second thing I think is a key to what Ruxandra called
“reinventing teachers”.

Looking forward to read “The Element”. I’ve heard only
respectful responses about that.

By: Mollybob

Mollybob — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:35:28 +0000

Thanks for the post. I agree that when we know the fundamentals and the “why” that there is more freedom (not just phyicailly). You reminded me of a conversation I had with my friend just the other day about a good cook book – she liked it so much because all the others just taught her recipes, this one taught her why to do things, which she liked because it meant she could make her own decisions.
I like it when someone makes me think

By: Charlie A. Roy

Charlie A. Roy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:52:44 +0000

An interesting post. i just finished Ken Roinson’s “The Element” and found it to be a great read. He promotes the teaching of the arts and spends a large part of the book focusing on teaching dance. I think you’d like it.

By: Vitaly Pimenov

Vitaly Pimenov — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:36:12 +0000

Thank you, Saul!

We move instantly, our bodies have tremendous
capacities to give us freedom and pleasure of each
single moment of our life.

Still we are in a haze of commonsense, illusions
and useless habits.

Educational systems have all the means to unveil
the knowledge about body perfectness. To do the
right thing from the very beginning.

We are responsible I think to bring that understanding
on the educational stage.

By: Saul Kaplan

Saul Kaplan — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:25:35 +0000

Kinesthetic literacy is right on point. It is important to integrate into our entire education system. It must become part of a life long learning paradigm. Movement is important throughout life up to and especially including our elder years. My friend Liz Lerman who runs the Dance Exchange has an incredible program exposing the elderly to the beauty of dance and self expression. She shared her story at BIF-3: http://cli.gs/s8L8X1 .

Saul Kaplan
Founder and Chief Catalyst
Business Innovation Factory
http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com