Think Creative

I was in a discussion the other morning about the development of education and a theme came apparent about two distinct styles of teaching and their values in an educational scenario. These two types of teaching are those of instructional and deductive. To explain them a little more, the approach to instructional is that of having a teaching guiding you through a process. Much as with most modern education and that of the form of vertical thinking. Deductive thinking can be a result to instructive or a stand alone approach to education, but is based on the approach of learning from experience rather than secondary information retrieval. Teaching is an important and powerful way to get ideas, information and process across to large groups of people. The issue with this method is that it has, especially in recent years, become what can only be called "parrot' fashioned. By this it is meant that a teacher educates and the students repeat. This is done, like a parrot, until the ...

I have written something before about environmental issues in a conducive environment, but yesterday I saw a TED talk which really aided in re-enforcing the point. I have linked it  here , so that you can enjoy the subject of how noise affects us. It was a scientific exploration of how the mind reacts to the sounds around us. What was discussed was the fact that we have adapted to try to accept these noises around us, and especially in our working environment. One point actually popped out, during the speech, that made an impact and actually supports the points made in my previous post on 'environmental blocks'. That point was the notion that our working environment should be suited to our needs. Not simply for personal gratification reasons, but also for productivity reasons. Recently it has become a trend to have open plan office working environments. This tends to negate the whole process of a god work practice. Mainly due to the noise output affecting our ability to work....