Education external ~ internal

 Thought of the day

 

“Education is not accomplished by putting something into man (woman)"

Does training, education work against us?

        An interesting  article on the BBC, “Can training kill off genius?”[i] has some serious provocative questions for education and training. It has serious even more provocative questions for personal development.  The author focuses on an artwork  “The Hungry Lion” by Henri Rousseau. Rousseau had a routine job and was not trained in the contemporary system of art during his life. He painted according to his imagination. When his works were viewed by the establishment, especially by the art critics, he was mocked and ridiculed.

     Fellow artists, Gauguin, Picasso, and Van Gogh recognized Rousseau’s genius. Interestingly Rousseau was self-taught. He used his vision, his imagination and his creativity to create and please himself.

     Years ago,