A colleague passed on this TED clip to me the other day, Sir Ken Robinson on the topic, "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" I feel suitably chastised. When I consider the fact that we are created in the image of God, the image of a God who is still in the playful business of making all things new, then I believe that we as Christian school leaders have some serious and playful work to do ourselves. We have created our schools in the image of public schools. We teach our students the way everyone else does. We build our schools the way everyone else does. Why are we surprised when our students look like everyone else does?
So much for the rant. But don't you think we should be on the leading edge of this? We are the ones who know this Creator. We should recognize the urgent need for creativity when it comes to the Kingdom of God making its way in the world. We should be the ones who are dancing, painting ,discovering, designing what that kingdom looks like. Creators are risk takers. Look at the risk the Creator takes with the likes of us. J. Oswald Sanders said, " A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution." Check out the link to TED: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
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Dear Dennis,
I don't know TED except Ted Vanderhoek, who is usually worth quoting.
I would like to pass along something I gleaned from BETSEY, who hems things on-line:
"We tend to think that good things are blessings; that more difficult things are curses."
I suspect that if we thought about teachers, students, parents, staffs, school anniversaries, economic times, etc., in these terms we'd come uop with some of the different practices you hint at.
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