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A blog response to a facebook post @ http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Blackstones-World-Without-Walls-ES2007S/160623160652040
Everyone says 'schools kill creativity', but why doesnt anybody OVERWHELMINGLY say, kids or their parents fail to create and innovate? That kind of the point in my exposition at the end in the above post.
In news articles, almost everyone ...says when a teenanger goes sexually astray---'schools fail to teach about the birds and the bees', but nobody says that parents fail to teach that or that the teenager refused to listen.
Im talking about personal accountability here but I'm not saying that talks, articles, news reports glaringly fail to preach personal accountability for they probably do and that is well and good. But they do not EMPHASIZE personal/individual accountability; that is the problem. The key point here is that everybody, every institution, every organization is responsible for its own success and demise, and if they can be individually and PERFECTLY accountable and responsible for their actions, would you agree that this world would be PERFECT WITHOUT PROBLEMS AND ISSUES? But of course that is not possible because humans are not perfect in every sense of the word, and so are their institutions and statutes. However, that does not mean we SHOULD NOT strive to achieve that sorta perfection, isnt it? The true achievement is NOT in the perfect end-state; the true achievement is in the STRUGGLE to achieve the perfect end-state. Just as in the true value in the quadrennial Olympics is in the participation (the process/means), rather than the victory (the ideal ceremonial ending), isn't it?
Similarly in professional communication, even the greatest communicator has flaws, though not so obvious ones, because that communicator is human. But the greatest communicator is the one with the GREATEST SPIRIT OR STRENGTH OF SOUL TO STRIVE FOR PERFECT COMMUNICATION. In short, it means the greatest communicator is the one who THINKS HE IS THE POOREST COMMUNICATOR, because logically only the poorest communicator will ever strive as hard for perfect communication. What else could be more true?
Consequently, professional communication is professional humility! Therefore if we have the latter, we not only have the former but we would also possess the strength of soul/spirit/mind to strive for perfection and if we have that, we minimise problems and issues of the genre of schools-kill-creativity type because individual accountability goes up a few notches
In news articles, almost everyone ...says when a teenanger goes sexually astray---'schools fail to teach about the birds and the bees', but nobody says that parents fail to teach that or that the teenager refused to listen.
Im talking about personal accountability here but I'm not saying that talks, articles, news reports glaringly fail to preach personal accountability for they probably do and that is well and good. But they do not EMPHASIZE personal/individual accountability; that is the problem. The key point here is that everybody, every institution, every organization is responsible for its own success and demise, and if they can be individually and PERFECTLY accountable and responsible for their actions, would you agree that this world would be PERFECT WITHOUT PROBLEMS AND ISSUES? But of course that is not possible because humans are not perfect in every sense of the word, and so are their institutions and statutes. However, that does not mean we SHOULD NOT strive to achieve that sorta perfection, isnt it? The true achievement is NOT in the perfect end-state; the true achievement is in the STRUGGLE to achieve the perfect end-state. Just as in the true value in the quadrennial Olympics is in the participation (the process/means), rather than the victory (the ideal ceremonial ending), isn't it?
Similarly in professional communication, even the greatest communicator has flaws, though not so obvious ones, because that communicator is human. But the greatest communicator is the one with the GREATEST SPIRIT OR STRENGTH OF SOUL TO STRIVE FOR PERFECT COMMUNICATION. In short, it means the greatest communicator is the one who THINKS HE IS THE POOREST COMMUNICATOR, because logically only the poorest communicator will ever strive as hard for perfect communication. What else could be more true?
Consequently, professional communication is professional humility! Therefore if we have the latter, we not only have the former but we would also possess the strength of soul/spirit/mind to strive for perfection and if we have that, we minimise problems and issues of the genre of schools-kill-creativity type because individual accountability goes up a few notches
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