A Tree Grew from A Seed
posted in notes |(The title is itself a problematic analogy that I will not discuss much in this post)
It is very important that we recall how we became whatever we are today.
Every good ‘product’ came from something foolish, it came from something small, it went through prolonged process of ‘playing’, it is a result of linking countless play that had no real purpose in the beginning.
To push for any concrete idea of grandeur from the process of sheer intellect, without lived experience as reference, without structures of thoughts, without having failures as guidance, and an inward connection is an utter waste of time.
In cases of people going idea, idea, idea, concept, concept, concept, without action, this is usually one of the cause. The other cause being, simply, people don’t want to do the real stuff.
This has to change. Else this roundabout will never end.
However in the case whereby there is something done, but lacking in concept, the latter itself is not the issue as much as whether or not, the review, tenacious inquiry, further development takes place. Without which a more meaningful learning cannot take place due to the abandonment of the real work that is set forth by the initial attempt.
School work tends to shortchange the development of the student precisely because of the above-mentioned abandonment (that takes place too early, too little done). This is what I call a curriculum-based learning. The one that truly reaches out to the student, connecting them to their true growth as an individual, is called individual (human)-based learning.
