27 may 2012

My favourite song is a classical one.




How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Bob Dylan still a rolling stone

Robert Zimmerman, probably the name doesn’t say anything to you, but if I say Bob Dylan.

Since an early teenager he soon started composing his own songs and performing in local coffee houses under the artistic name that would lead him to the fame.

Once he moved to Greenvillage he soon started to produce famous songs that would put him among the first, gaining reputation with ¨Blowing in the wind¨ and ¨The times are changing, metamorphosing into the voice of the current generation, defending civil rights and anti-war movements.

It was not until 1965, however, when he reinvented himself replacing accustic music for
electric music, not being afraid of the consequences this act could provoke on his audience.

In 1980 his due to commercial disappointments, his popularity started to decay, but no sooner he teamed with George H., Tom Petty, J. Hendrix and Roy Orbison and as a result he hit it again,  reaching huge impacts on the American popular music. In 2006, Dylan released ¨Modern Time¨ entering the U.S charts at number one.

Bob Dylan, a remarkable, unstoppable and unbeatable person. Constantly innovating and reinventing him. Following his love instinct for music
Don’t you agree if I say that he is still a rolling stone?

Congratulation, Bob.

1 may 2012

Ken Robinson : Education and Creativity

INTRODUCTION:

Sir Ken starts his speech pointing out three important themes:

-The extraordinary evidence of human creativity.
-Future is unpredictable for our children.
-The extraordinary capacity that children have through creativity.

BODY:

- We get people out of creativity:
We are tought that with creativity we won´t achieve a job.The national education systems stigmatize mistakes, but  if we are not prepared to be wrong, we´ll never come up with anything original. Consequence: we are educating people out their creative capacity.

- Academic inflation:
Every education system on earth has the same hierachy of subjects, in which all came into being the needs of industrialism and in which  math and language are more important than  literacy and arts . In the next 30 years more people worlwide will be graduating through this education system conducting to a degradation of the titles.

-The importance of inteligence:
 Inteligence is  diverse , dinamic and distinct.

CONCLUSION:

It is necessary to create a new conception of human ecology and to rethink the fundamental principles on which we´re educating our children.