Manic Monday

    This is an appropriate song for how my day. It certainly was manic. My first class Monday morning begins at 7AM, which means to be parking my car and carefully shuffling across the ice to get to class more or less on time I need to leave home at 6:20AM. (Yes including the capitalized AM is necessary:) Alas, I woke up, got out of bed, and trekked out into the -4 degree weather.

As exhausting as my day was I was greatly enlightened in my Methods of Teaching Modern Dance class. The majority of our discussion was based on this video. It's twenty minutes long but it is oh so worth it. This is one of the main reasons I am changing my major to Dance Education. I strongly believe and stand behind the message in this video. Dance combines and encourages growth in all developmental domains; physical, social, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual. If more of the world understood this and showed respect for dance, then, the world be a more beautiful and obviously more peaceful. :)

Here are some highlights:

"Creativity is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same status."
"IF you're not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original."
"Educating out of creativity."

How creative can we be? How creative have we been? Can we remember to be more creative?