Comments on: On violence in schools http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/ zen reflections on the future of everything Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:44:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jack Ricchiuto http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/#comment-11415 Jack Ricchiuto Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:59:24 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/#comment-11415 Susan, the video is fabulously humorous and wise. It speaks in part to the misdiagnosis of creativity as maladjusted behavior. When we aren't clientizing people, we're discovering their gifts and engaging them, resulting in wholeness on all levels of individual, relationship, and community. The good news is that it is a radical yet very accessible transition, this shift from noticing problems to imagining possibilities. Susan, the video is fabulously humorous and wise. It speaks in part to the misdiagnosis of creativity as maladjusted behavior. When we aren’t clientizing people, we’re discovering their gifts and engaging them, resulting in wholeness on all levels of individual, relationship, and community. The good news is that it is a radical yet very accessible transition, this shift from noticing problems to imagining possibilities.

]]> By: jb http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/#comment-11412 jb Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:33:11 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/#comment-11412 Hi Jack- Quite frankly your post applies universally. Not just schools and kids, but cities and people: neighborhoods, councilmen, police, CDC's, etc. While communities seem to have an easier time discussing socially based marginalization of individuals in the school, what we learn at school we carry into the "real world." Our society will not be any greater than the citizens we create. Hi Jack-

Quite frankly your post applies universally. Not just schools and kids, but cities and people: neighborhoods, councilmen, police, CDC’s, etc.

While communities seem to have an easier time discussing socially based marginalization of individuals in the school, what we learn at school we carry into the “real world.”

Our society will not be any greater than the citizens we create.

]]> By: TimFerris http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/#comment-11392 TimFerris Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:43:20 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/#comment-11392 You've pointed the dialogue in the right direction. All this talk about security hardware and guards is so silly, so hollow. The prevention of such things involves one-on-one attention to kids at risk, way before things escalate, way, way before they blow up. In the service, we often tried to take the at-risk kids and make them our drivers or clerks--keep them close, keep them busy, or, as you call it, "engaged." You’ve pointed the dialogue in the right direction. All this talk about security hardware and guards is so silly, so hollow. The prevention of such things involves one-on-one attention to kids at risk, way before things escalate, way, way before they blow up. In the service, we often tried to take the at-risk kids and make them our drivers or clerks–keep them close, keep them busy, or, as you call it, “engaged.”

]]> By: David M. Besonen http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/#comment-11391 David M. Besonen Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:42:41 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/#comment-11391 thanks for that link Susan. i really enjoyed the video. thanks for that link Susan. i really enjoyed the video.

]]> By: Susan Miller http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/#comment-11290 Susan Miller Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:24:53 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/10/12/on-violence-in-schools/#comment-11290 Good point Jack. When you have 20 minutes check out this speaker, Sir Ken Robinson on the topic Do schools kill creativity?: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66 Good point Jack. When you have 20 minutes check out this speaker, Sir Ken Robinson on the topic
Do schools kill creativity?: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66

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