Jack/Zen
A zen perspective on how we think about the future
Jack Ricchiuto is a nationally acclaimed designer and author of 9 books. His website is DesigningLife.com
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On violence in schools
This week here in Cleveland, people are talking about a child's violence in a school of shining stars. A child self-described as isolated and marginalized, a state that always gives way to violence.
Schools need to redefine themselves. Away from places designed to remind children that they are problems to be fixed to places designed to remind children that they are gifts to be engaged.
The mistake is to think that violence has anything to do with security or the lack of security. It is a lack of engagement. When we understand engagement, safety will be remembered as a conversation of generations passed.
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Do schools kill creativity?: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
Quite frankly your post applies universally. Not just schools and kids, but cities and people: neighborhoods, councilmen, police, CDC's, etc.
While communities seem to have an easier time discussing socially based marginalization of individuals in the school, what we learn at school we carry into the "real world."
Our society will not be any greater than the citizens we create.
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