6 Aug
2012
6 Aug
'12
3:44 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:32:41 +0200, david
<gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
I nearly take offense to this. You don't know what you're talking
about vis a vis psychology. There's plenty of good research in
education going on right now (I can't say what goes on in Germany
though). Left vs Right brain dichotomies are a wrong understanding of
creative and analytical thinking. There's a bigger picture that this
all fits into, and you're missing a lot of it.
I think that most kids aren't interested in music. It's exceptional
for one of them to want to play music at a young age anyway.
Chuck
Of course, this is compounded by the way at least
the American education
used to put a lot of effort into discouraging students from singing or
playing music ...
*chuckle*
As I explained in my previous mails, discouraging children to become
creative already starts on German elementary schools.
They teach them to use the left brain, instead of the right brain and they
don't shy away from teaching dyslexics how to read by that ugly left brain
thinking too. I wonder that they don't beat left-handers anymore. I suspect
they don't understand what already seems to be known since the 80s, about
how the brain seems to work. They have tons of affirmative action to teach
the children arts, to teach dyslexics reading etc., but this seldom is done
by artists, experts, it's done by social workers who miss to join their own
psychotherapy.
Regards,
Ralf