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rhea,
glad you enjoyed.
liked your thoughts... conformist, cookie cutter, standardized robots... who please parents but never themselves. you know it's difficult to even standardize shoe size and here we are all set to make people fit into a mould we have created, thinking thsi will make their lives fulfilling and better somehow.
i have real problems with the way we view education now. also with what we think is important.
ken r was great to listen to.
i hope only i can let my kid be and let her find her own way to what she is meant to be. yes yes, i do think we are all born with our future in us... and left to our own devices we'll find our way there.
harry was a wizard. i am a rotten romance writer. my father who was a highly accomplished geologist and loved his subject, told me once that his natural and most apt choice would have been law, just that he never realised it... (how to realise, when science science science is all you hear and aspire to?)
i am fascinated by left handed people. in school, a mega crush was left handed. then i realised most of my favourite actors are, so are many people in the department called "creative" in ad agencies, which i belong to.
constant pushing of people to fall in line, be like everyone else, never try to be different. claustrophobic.
i love the fact that barun's handwriting is pretty bad... and his b is flipped.
the world as we know it has been forever changed by three college dropouts... one of them i abs lub... mr jobs (yeah yeah, i know difficult man and all that but oh what a mind) the other two i am not fond of, but microsoft and facebook have done a few things.
an open mind, a will to learn, curiosity, interest in something... i wonder if that's not enough to make your way to your life.
but having said everything, even seemingly pointless knowledge taught by kind dedicated teachers... is never ever a waste, always builds you, always precious and suddenly comes in to illuminate completely unconnected things often. what you studied in physics in class nine just might make your understanding of lady macbeth more keen... ha ha yes, i think that kind of stuff happens. had marvelous teachers and parents who loved the idea of education, especially my father who actually enjoyed studying yikes, but who never pressured one to constantly "perform". my mom would laugh, if everyone's kid comes first how will it work, some kids have to come fourth fifth, last... those are my kids.
Edited by indi52 - 9 years ago
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