Saturday, February 4, 2012

Talent


Talent is a funny thing. We all search for it in our children, that spark of magnificence. But the chance of anyone's talent coming to life in a vacuum is exactly zero. Mozart was exposed to music from birth. Tiger Woods was playing golf as a toddler. So many people who are talented in wildly remote areas of life can go back to a time in their childhood when they discovered something so amazing that they just had to pursue it.

This is our job as educators. It needn’t involve a huge outlay of funds, but it needs to be real. It could be something as simple as a parent turning a lathe in class or one of the teaching staff playing the accordion. We can see thousands of skilled and talented individuals on line, but when an actual human being who is standing in front of you right now is moving his hands over that piece of wood and making magic it becomes real. It becomes possible.

Is not the point of education to open new vistas for our students?

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