Do we need the box?
It was refreshing that the magic of quantum tunnelling as viewed from the perspective of management gurus and how it infiltrates the thinking of school managers around the globe were brought into our field of vision. Edward Ong, Opinionated Monthly Aug 09.
In management, the notion that something has to tunnel through a box implies that the box has to be there in the first place. The question is: who placed the confining box and how rigid is this confining structure constructed to allow tunnelling to take place? And once out, are you then allowed to get back in again unaltered? In educational institutions such as the schools, that rigid confining structure is real enough. The interlocking rules from arbitrarily constructed entities designed to produce certain behavioral outcomes, academic achievements, etc., etc. are examples of these. These structures retard students’ explorative capacity and creativity, usually out of fear. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Fear that such initiatives may lead one into trouble; to run into the confining structure. It is not to suggest that all these- the box-induced confinements- are all bad. It is only to suggest to those in the position of power, teachers for example (in the context of school), that the spirit of creativity requires the wide open space of flexibility, acceptance and awareness. Awareness that the world is one huge shifting sand dune. Attitude and cultural nuances and acceptability shift with times; not to mention changes triggered by advances in technologies.
Welcome to the second decade of the 21st century.
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