It is hard in our time to “imagine all the people sharing all the world” as John Lennon sang…. It seems a time when we don’t want to understand each other…. when we are learning to survive with deaf ears… when explosions replace the sound of music…
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The relation of children with the online world is a sensitive issue as the impact of the “virtual reality” on children -whether seen as positive or negative- will project its effects over the near future…. A tale of the ancient times when the internet didn’t exist yet, will tell you more…
There is a folk of 2.2 billion people, a third of the whole world population, scattered all over the planet. Their conditions of life are most various depending on
There remains a misconception that creativity is solely the province of the arts…Creativity exists in all disciplines. It is valued by mathematicians, scientists and entrepreneurs, as well as by artists, writers and composers…
The 100th anniversary of the first Waldorf school -that opened in Stuttgart in September 1919- has been celebrated this September in all Steiner/Waldorf schools worldwide. The educational vision that Steiner…
The Isle of Slaves”, set in a pastoral environment in the 17th century, is really far away from the complexity of our time. However, after watching it, my mind couldn’t avoid to fly over the times and try to find out what challenges are awaiting us in the present.
Two masters and their servants are shipwrecked on an island. Here to the stranded company comes Governor Trivelin and asks one of them: “What’s your name”…
“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains”… OMG! when I saw this sentence on a magazine, I had to rub my eyes! (by the way, “it” stands for Facebook…). It was Sean Parker saying those words in an interview at Axios last November 2017….
“Creativity is not a capacity of special people but a special capacity of all people. It shows speakers as language makers and not simply as language users”!
I find this conclusion absolutely fantastic!
It comes at the end of the book titled: “Language and Creativity: the Art of Common Talk” written by Ron Carter -professor at Nottingham University- and published by Routeledge (second edition, 2016).
Two fundamental points of this statement deserve to be highlighted: 1) “Creativity is a special capacity of all people” and 2) “Creativity shows speakers as language makers not simply language users”
Self-confidence is an essential source of energy in life and plays a peculiar role in language learning as well in learning overall.
Some people have a huge dose of self-confidence (you probably know some of those kind, don’t you?), some people have a very poor self-esteem (usually easy prey of the first category): to some extent we are like trees and luckily we are different from one other, as stated at the beginning of the story “The King of Ireland’s Son”…
