On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:32:41 +0200, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Of course, this is compounded by the way at least the American education >> used to put a lot of effort into discouraging students from singing or >> playing music ... > > > *chuckle* > > As I explained in my previous mails, discouraging children to become > creative already starts on German elementary schools. > They teach them to use the left brain, instead of the right brain and they > don't shy away from teaching dyslexics how to read by that ugly left brain > thinking too. I wonder that they don't beat left-handers anymore. I suspect > they don't understand what already seems to be known since the 80s, about > how the brain seems to work. They have tons of affirmative action to teach > the children arts, to teach dyslexics reading etc., but this seldom is done > by artists, experts, it's done by social workers who miss to join their own > psychotherapy. > > Regards, > Ralf I nearly take offense to this. You don't know what you're talking about vis a vis psychology. There's plenty of good research in education going on right now (I can't say what goes on in Germany though). Left vs Right brain dichotomies are a wrong understanding of creative and analytical thinking. There's a bigger picture that this all fits into, and you're missing a lot of it. I think that most kids aren't interested in music. It's exceptional for one of them to want to play music at a young age anyway. Chuck _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
