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Friday, October 14, 2011

Currently sitting in class when I came across this photo on Nujin's Facebook and suddenly recall having this same revelation yesterday when playing a game with a name to the likes of "Where's the problem?" with my little student Hinki yesterday. The rules were simple: Show the child photos of odd images and have them point out what is "wrong". Photos of tables with human legs, birds flying upside down, and raining umbrellas were shown, and I was thinking how inspirational these were until it came to me that this is how society is limiting creativity - telling children that imagination is a problem. And the ones who don't listen to convention are the ones who make a statement... but if we weren't so constricted with our views, wouldn't we feel less inhibited when expressing ourselves? Less afraid to say what is "wrong" in terms of what is the norms. Less likely to laugh at others who think differently than the stereotype. Just an idea. Like raining umbrellas.

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