motivation in schools

Sometimes teachers think they are motivating their students just because they are doing what is suppose to be done (thinking that they are teachers) but they don’t realize they are working with children, with different minds and more important, different lives. Teachers care about teaching contents and not helping children to grow like persons to make their life easier in the future. This means to face up their future life.
Teaching’s methods are not always the best ones… why?... because professors every so often do not realize they are working badly with some children, and because of that, they can change the perspective of them in terms of learning and the importance of that. Teachers need to know that one method can be pretty good for some children, but what about the other ones?.. this is very important to consider, since in class educators use to motivate in a badly way. Instead of helping everybody to have confidence about the things they are doing, sometimes they provoke in the children a feeling of distrust regarding themselves. Teachers cannot put all their attention on just a group of students; all of them need the teacher’s feed-back because that can help them in relation to their self-esteem and also their confidence.
Nowadays children are being more motivated in a way, but I think that the government’s politics do not help to contribute with it. We are living in competence day a day as well as schools do, and they care about doing well in the national (and international) tests instead of concerning about the children.

where is your mind??

It was really interesting to see that video, that man can catch everybody’s attention… his speech is absolutely awesome, and all the audience was kind of eager about the things and also the jokes hi was saying.
But obviously the most important thing was the topics that he was trying to express. This man talks about “creativity” like an important gift for humans, and how it is disappearing day a day… and… the worst thing is that this is happening because of our fault. We are not letting children think, being originals, or just being themselves.
Children are not being encouraged to use or to stimulate their creativity; they just do what others tell them to do. I think that if this keeps this way, it can block our society in terms of discovering new things to improve the world. We cannot expect everybody to think the same way. Everybody knows we have different ways of seeing the world, and those differences can make the world special for everybody … why? Because if we use our minds without any intervention we would be ourselves… and I think that anybody has the right to make us different or to take part of our minds.

Robinson, Ken. "Schools kill creativity", TED. Filmed February 2006, posted June 2006.

Alcohol price controls would save lives...

I have read a new about reducing the alcohol’s price, because it is suppose that in the case of doing that, the alcohol would turn unpopular. What would be excellent is that the hospital’s admission would be also affected in terms of reducing it too. Most people spend a big percentage of their salary to drink and that cause health problems, accidents, families are affected with their problem and so on.
Something that concerned while reading the article at the first time was that supermarkets do not agree about increasing the alcohol’s prices and their argument was that reducing prices won’t change their situation. Although I think that they just care about earning money, I think that they are right in a way. Alcoholic people have a problem that I believe that this solution is not the best one. They have a problem which consist in an addiction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/15/alcohol-price-control-save-lives