Educating creativity: it is not the same to do what one wants than what another wants

A few days ago we talked about the school and how the standardization system makes many children can Get to lose part of your creative abilities.

Today I want to make a point and followed what was talked about that day thanks to the vignette of Francesco Tonucci (aka Frato) that I bring you.

Tonucci, of which we already spoke in Babies and more on another occasion, is an Italian thinker, psychopedagogue and draftsman whose work has been directed towards childhood and his education.

In this vignette we can see several children imagining what they could do the next day with the tweezers that the teacher (or teacher) has asked them. After hearing the phrase "remember to bring me a few clothespins tomorrow" students begin to develop their projects with the imagination. The creativity Innate leads them to think what they will do the next day. They imagine games, toys, decorative elements, etc.

However the next day they all leave with their expectations unfulfilled. They have made a penholder (better known as pencil holders or pencil holders) and they have all been left wanting to do something fun that would have served them equally as an element of psychomotor practice and even more as a creative element.

Ideally, everyone could learn what they wanted to learn

This phrase that sounds so unreal and illogical considering how the current system is (which many will think could be part of "the worlds of yupi") is one of the premises that every school should defend: Ideally, everyone could learn what they wanted to learn.

And it is ideal because each and every one could learn what motivates and interests him most, giving value to the person, to his individuality, to his interests, to his desire to be someone and above all to the right of each person to be her. same, with the value that it should assume.

As Tonucci himself says:

The boys have to get to school with their pockets full, not empty, and draw their knowledge to work them in the classroom. (...) Work begins by giving the floor to the children. First the child moves; Then the teacher. The teacher has to know what the children know before acting, because if it is done before, it surely hurts.

It is necessary to know where each one is, what he wants, what he knows, what he doesn't know, what he wants to know, where he wants to go and, Based on this information, act to support.

The children have their own knowledge and aspirations and if, as in the example of the tweezers, they had been asked about them, they would have all had a good time with the tweezers doing what they would have liked to do.

Nothing happens if everyone does the same

Of course not, if nothing happens, nothing is going to be thrown into the river or hate your teacher for not being able to do what she would have liked to do, she will not even be traumatized for life and may always say that "I always did what they told me to do and nothing happened to me," however, every time the creativity of the children is restricted, a grain of sand is put on so that the lack of appetite appears, so that the desire to learn and innovate decreases and for the child to lose his expectations and interests and change them for those who are accepted by the majority (something like stop paddling in a certain direction if the riverbed takes you to another).

And of course, It is not the same to do what one wants to do what another wants you to do.

In a logical world in which all men were considered equal (as it should be, since we are all equal) we should all have the same right to choose our path (as long as it does not harm other people, I think this is evident ), however, we do not live in a logical world, but in a society in which a few decide how the majority of the population will live and, for this purpose, it is important that children grow up as children as submissive beings capable of obeying and accepting The hierarchies

As you can see, a portabolis made with tweezers goes a long way ... Now it's your turn to think: What would I have liked to do as a child and I didn't do it because someone decided for me? Have I been a person capable of making my decisions or have I always waited for someone to decide for me? And more importantly: To what extent will I decide for my son on his way?

Do children have to choose their path alone?

Let's not get confused, we are parents, adults and we have to educate them. Leaving all decisions in the hands of our children can be dangerous, since there is a risk of falling into neglect, not education. However, making too many decisions for them causes an overprotection such that it overrides the development of children's autonomy.

God ... how difficult it is to be a father.