We need to look at the whole world of communication in a more complete way. We need to take art and music out of "the arts class" and put it into the English class. For instance, the various forms of communication form a circle. On one end of this circle is math, the least emotional of all forms of communication. It's very strict and very concise, and has a very precise way of explaining something. Then you start moving around the circle, and you get to the other end, where we have music, which primarily appeals to your emotions, not to your intellect.
So, in this great circle of communication, you go from the emotional end of music and painting and art -- the visual forms of communication -- to the written communication and spoken communication. Finally, you end up at math, which is the most precise. It forms a beautiful circle of communication. But it's all part of the same circle.
All these forms of communication are extremely important, and they should be treated that way. Unfortunately, we've moved away from teaching the emotional forms of communication. But if you want to get along in this world, you need to have a heightened sense of emotional intelligence, which is the equal of your intellectual intelligence.
One of my concerns is that we're advancing intellectually very fast, but we're not advancing emotionally as quickly.
As educators we need to have visual, written and spoken forms of communication in our classrooms. It is vital to work on emotional intelligence to find out about how our kids are feeling at the moment.
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George Lucas advocating for visual literacy! This is a man who knows how important it is to be sucessfull in this area!
We need to keep up with constant change, technology, methods, discoveries, We need to teach our children how everything that surrounds them is a powerful tool for them to comprehend the world.
