Aboriginal elders want return to physical tribal punishments, page-39

" I owe much of this to my (paternal) grandmother. She instilled in me a love of language, literature, poetry, and strangely, mythology. This gave me the ability - even as a child - to stand back and see that my actions were insignificant, and that the whole world did not revolve around me."

interesting comment ----------

picked apart - what do we see?


"language, literature, poetry, and strangely, mythology"


hint for people ----------------------- does this smell like some of the classics in education???


does this smell like the sorts of things that our Federal government made easier and cheaper for Australians to study at university???



here is someone who appears to be what we would call successful- and, they describe their foundations as being grounded in some classics


we then look to the Queens Birthday honors list and we see Professor Kurt Lambeck say that his greatest scientific discoveries didn't actually come from his scientific background - they actually came from his studies in philosophy


there's that philosophy thingy again


Philosophy
Art


both things that 4 year olds can actually understand -------- amazing eh?


Aboriginal people - as well as almost any children ------- they are all good at art

what does art do -----------


art allows us to express our emotions ------------ art allows us a voice


think that line through --------------- art allows us to express our emotions


so, we have a government that is actively making it more difficult to study art -

but, we have a society that is descending in respect and responsibility and participating more and more in expressing their emotions though violence and destruction -------------


are we beginning to see a pattern here????????


is there anywhere, a tiny tiny bell beginning to ring??


or do we just want to tie em to a stake and whip em???