This is my ‘bible’. It is the book I live by.

Its the only book I own 2 copies of. One kept new, and one kept used.

I think I like the used one more… it feels more real. More tactile.

A lot of things have been reminding of it recently…

[url=http://blipfoto.com/view.php?id=121527&month=3&year=2008]smithski’s[/url] ‘change everything’

the changes at work

I’ve been thinking about whats important to me

You see, if I could change one thing… make one big difference…

I would fix our schooling systems…

Creativity should be taught in schools. So often in todays schools exactly the opposite is happening with creativity being discouraged as ‘being difficult’ and ADD.

(Don’t get me wrong, I have great admiration for good teachers, its the ‘system’ and societies expectations that needs refreshing).

And today I stumbled across a video that reminded me [url=http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66]I am not alone[/url] in my goal.

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[i]I was even more astounded by the quality of the things the children wrote. I’d never seen any examples of children’s writing during my training; I thought it was a hoax (one of my colleagues must have smuggled a book of modern verse in!). By far the best work carm from the ‘ineducable’ ten-year-olds. At the end of my first year the Divisional Officer refused to end my probation. He’d found my class doing arithmetic with masks over their faces – they’d made them in art class and I didn’t see why they shouldn’t wear them. There was a cardboard tunnel he was supposed to crawl through (because the classroom was doubling as an igloo), and an imaginary hole in the floor that he refused to walk around. I’d stuck all the art paper together and pinned it along the back wall, and when a child got bored he’d leave what he was doing and stick some more leaves on the burning forest.

My headmaster had discouraged my ambition to become a teacher: ‘You’re not the right type,’ he said, ‘not the right type at all.’ Now it looked as if I was going to be rejected officially.[/i]

– Keith Johnstone, Impro, 1979.

P.S. I have finished back blipping for the long weekend… It starts [url=http://blipfoto.com/view.php?id=121324&month=3&year=2008]here[/url] (and includes a classic reminder of how [url=http://blipfoto.com/view.php?id=121813&month=3&year=2008]dangerous[/url] blipping can be…).