Afraid of being wrong

I have just watched the video "Do Schools Kill Creativity" on the website Ted.com, and the truth is that Sir Ken Robinson's talk got me deep, because I realize that right now I am terrified of being wrong and I am not remotely prepare for doing the wrong thing, which means that I end up taking the safe path of design and not having the best results ether so Why do I do that? I think is because the system has turn me in to a person that is force to deliver rightly otherwise the consequences are failing the subject, which translate in losing a semester and losing more money in a university that does not make me happy, so this fear path has totally block me. I remember now that before I got in to FAU I used to do so many creative staffs, I was part of an acting class, I was in charge of most of the acts at school, I oil painted, read so much more than now and I was always doing things and actually designing things too (even if I didn´t know that at the time) but now everything that I seem to do is work and work and work for my classes, trying to get good marks and getting no so good ones in some classes in the process. I see now that the change has to come from me because sadly enough my teachers just say “be more creative” but do not help you or guide you to let you be creative, and as sad as it sounds, is the reality that I come to live in my last years of classes, and is kind of sad, you hope someone would tell you this things before, guess is a learning process, don´t know, well I do know that if I have kids someday I’ll encourage them to be prepare of being wrong.

Contradictor behavior

Considering that I am currently studding in a “public” university, I am concern about why is “public” and not straight on public, but I`m also not happy with the decisions that have been made in my faculty, because every year that I have been in this school, is the same thing, we go for the strike method for some weeks, on which we make some noise, but no one seems to hear and in the end its just bla bla bla of improvement , everything stays the same and we all end up suffering from the tight schedule syndrome, which includes symptoms like: stress, stress, stress and low marks. This year is the first time that I experience an university “sit-in” and I do understand the point of it, but at the same time I see how my own classmate do not allow me, and the rest of the students to use the university grounds for studding purposes, isn´t it that why we are doing this?, for a better education? I really don´t see how we are going to accomplish that if my class mates stops the rest of us from asking teachers for guiding, using the laser cut machine, the tool room, the library, in the end cutting the opportunity for those that do not agree with the method of the "sit-in" to keep on doing what they like (I assume that if you get in design is because you like design) but in the end this wouldn´t bother me that much if when we point out this point of view, people wouldn’t get so angry and just try to shut you with phrases like: “if you don´t like it, go study in a private university”

Seriously people, where is the pluralism on that?

Four arrests after patient abuse caught on film

Last night I was passing channels and the BBC news channel caught my attention, particularly a news about four people that were arrest for abusing patients in a mental facility in Briston (UK). These guys were the ones in charge of taking care of people with autism and learning disabilities, but there were rumors of abuse, so a BBC undercover reporter caught them on film on witch you can see how they are mistreated to the point of torture “During five weeks spent filming undercover, Panorama's reporter captured footage of some of the hospital's most vulnerable patients being repeatedly pinned down, slapped, dragged into showers while fully clothed, taunted and teased” (BBC news). I was shock with this because is fully known how badly this people were treat years ago, but we sort of believe that this things do not happened any more, we feel safer living in a time in which autism and learning disabilities are well treated, but we keep hearing cases like this. We, humans really have problems with power and dealing with what is different, even if most people won’t react like this in cases like the one in Briston, there are other ones that take advantage of being in charge and use that power ageist people that cannot defend and are different from the rest, those guys are just cowards and as you can see this things happen in any society.

For more information on this, here is the link for the complete news and the video took by the reporter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13548222