Remember the typewriter, the cassette tape (reel to reel, aghh!), the ditto sheet, the dial phone, the newspaper? We now take for granted competing with students need to text or listen to ipods. Is it better or worse now? Does our ability to remember anything decrease geometrically with the amount of information confronting us? What is really important to teach and what is really important to learn? Why should we continue to support the arts and why is there such huge need to advocate for the arts in the first place? Shouldn't the arts automatically be required in an excellent education?
On January 1oth our Second Sundays play reading and open mic theme will be "Art for the Next Decade." All are invited to contribute.. I face the new decade with more questions than answers. Perhaps I will find companions in asking, and perhaps better questions will emerge.
Archimedes of Syracuse discovered his Buoyancy Principle while stepping into the bath tub, not while drudging away at school or at his papyrus. Is this a clue for all of us about creativity for the new decade?
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