Kids and Creativity!!!! February 5, 2009
Posted by suptblog in : Environment , trackbackHaving his finger on the pulse of one of the founding philosophies of Song-CAMP, in a Tuesday,18nov08 Morning Edition interview on National Public Radio (NPR), Bill Ayers (author of a new book “City Kids City Teachers and To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher”) quoted a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks about a boy who vandalized a school: The boy says he wanted to create: ” ‘If not a note, then a hole, if not an overture, then a desecration. But I shall create.’ And that’s the aspiration of every human being — to create, to be seen, to be noticed, to make a difference, to leave your footprint in the sand. And if we don’t provide that for kids, if we don’t open that creative vent, then we for sure open the destructive vent.” http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97124808
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