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charley954 Posts: 1Brakes lights stay on whenever they feel like it. Most of the the time they get stuck on after 10 seconds. This is only when car is running and in D, 1,2, N or R ( auto trans ) Will not do it if car is in park or ignition key on. Only when engine is running. This started about two weeks ago, and I started replacing parts. I've read lots of posts involving the brake light/hazard problem and chewed up or chafed wiring in tail gate. Several too about the 3rd brake light. I've also read literally 100's on other forums with no resolution. The 2000-01 Focus is the only year that uses the hazard switch to also work the brake lights, tails only not the 3rd brake light. I changed the stop light switch twice, no change. I have used two different hazard switches, problem returns no matter which one I use. One less then a year old, and one brand new. All are Ford parts, no aftermarket. So those two items are fine. Not a fuse problem because I do have working brake lights when in park. Check wiring going into hatch, peeled back rubber boot and checked any exposed wires. This is quite common in the Focus hatch, so that's the first thing I did. No change. The directional's will flash when lights are stuck on until last night. I went for a 30-40 minute ride and the lights got stuck. I can see the glow from my side mirrors, of course only at night. I never know during the day. The only way to shut them off is to unplug the hazard switch, but that's only cutting the power source. If I wait for 15-20 minutes and plug it back in they will stay off. The switch does get warm but that's because the lights are on, it stays cool when lights not stuck. Back to last night. When I got the car home I put it in neutral and tried the turn signals. I put the right turn on and the left side was blinking. WTF ! I got out and checked, the lights were flashing like a school bus. Each side flashing opposite of the other. Is something heating up after awhile ? I have no clue. This year Focus does not have a separate flasher unit that I could try. It's all through the hazard switch.
New stop light switch(2)=nothing
New hazard switch(3)=nothing
Hatch wiring repaired=nothing
New multifunction switch=nothing
All fuses good
acoustimac Posts: 1My left rear park light stopped working. Have checked fuses and changed the bulb (original was good). Put a meter in the socket and no power. Checked wire all the way to fuse box and no power. Here is the weird part. When the car is on, light switch is off and I activate the rear defrost the park lights front and rear come on on the left side. Turn the defrost off and they go out.
This is for a 2005 ZX5 SE. Any suggestions?
hault Posts: 124I had an original 2000 Focus. My son now drives it. I have followed the posts since day 1. I never encountered the rear light issue. I read it had something to do with the wiring along the trunk lid getting pinched and damaged. Perhaps a good electrical shop could check and repair the wiring. Good luck!
I agree, probably pinched wire some where. Or possibly a short where around the fuse box since it is possible that the defrost is having some effect on it.
I have been driving a 2000 focus lx for a few years now and have had a lot of problems big and small. I had never encountered an electrical issue yet besides fuses or hooking up an aftermarket cd player.
Your best bet is to just completely trace the wiring from power source to switch to the bulbs. Its gotta be a short somewhere.
tglaser Posts: 1Did you ever figure out what the problem was? I'm having the same clicking noise coming from under the dash and it will shut off my radio and dim my lights and it has even shut my car off. Any advice would be great! Thanks.
musiclady420 Posts: 3Ok, so I have an '03 focus and we figured out the electrical problems. On the sedans they have electrical problems with positive battery cables, wire going from.altenator, and numerous dash wires. The clicking is from your switch that stops the vehicle from going into gear from reverse. These switches can get problems in them if you have ever spilled in the gear shifter. But most likely it is from a short in the cable leaving your altenator. That is what cause all of our problems. Now if you have a hatchback the issue will be where the electric connector going down to the lights. It gets pinched and causes a short. In the end we saved the most time by taking the vehicle to a Ford dealer and paying $250 for a diagnostic & replacement of the wire. It sounds like a lot but it was a whole lot cheaper than the $1200 we spent trying to replace parts.
2000focusgal Posts: 1I realize that you posted this almost 2 yrs ago.
I see that no one ever answered you.
My car is just now doing exactly the same thing as you have accurately described.
Can you tell me what ever came about on yours or did you end up dumping the car?
Any help is appreciated.
I will tell you that the focus with the 2.0 and SOHC 4 cylinder is the worst car for problems that Ford makes in my opinion.
Unless you trouble shoot this problem yourself, you may be looking at up to a grand in labor and diagnostics.
If I was you, I would stop driving this car immediately to stop putting miles on it and sell it for what ever you can get for it.
If you decide to keep the car then I can tell you that this electrical issue is just the beginning of the problems.
jcs88 Posts: 1Did you figure out what was going on with your headlights? I'm having the same issue with mine on my 02 focus.
wytkid Posts: 4I have a 2000 ford focus 2.0 split port engine code (P). Ive had the battery replaced several times and aftet 4-5 days the car won't start like the battery is dead give it a jump start and it fires right up... take it and have a battery tester put on it and the volts are good but the CCA have dropped down in to the double digits... put a brand new battery in it and have all the test ran on it (starter, alternator,etc..) they come back fine... a few days later the problem comes back. Can any help me please...
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From The Prime Grill Cookbook: Redefining the Kosher Experience by David Kolotkin and Joey Allaham, © Joey Allaham, used by permission of the publisher, Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
½ cup soy sauce½ cup sugar¼ cup miring3 garlic cloves, crushed(use your knife or the bottom of a pot to crush the garlic cloves)Four 7-oz. fillets sea bassSalt to taste2 tbsp. oil
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the soy sauce, sugar, mirin, and crushed garlic cloves. Reduce slowly for approximately 30 minutes until it thickens and coats the back of a spoon; set aside. Season the fish with salt. Add the oil to a heavy gauged frying pan and put on high heat. After the frying pan is hot, sear the fish for 2 minutes on each side. Bake the fish in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes and glaze the top of the fish with the teriyaki after every two minutes.Serve over the Cauliflower Curry Puree (recipe here).
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We, as Airmen, embrace the notion that the Air Force is a combatant organization; the warrior philosophy abounds. The creed displays our warfighting ethos. Having a warfighting ethos is part of the Air Force's soul, its makeup. It is woven into every flag draped upon an Airman's coffin, it is present in every 21 gun salute performed at an Air Force funeral and it is displayed in every "missing man" formation flown by an Air Force aircraft. Our role in the fight is not simply support and the creed details this point. Airmen are spilling blood, sweat, and tears, and it comes at a great price. The creed captures our contribution to the overall security of this nation and our importance in the fight. It outlines my acceptance to bear the responsibility of upholding a legacy of valor while simultaneously forging a way ahead for others to follow.
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Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon, the Depositories for the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks
Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon, the Depositories for the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks
The Temple of Haeinsa, on Mount Gaya, is home to the Tripitaka Koreana , the most complete collection of Buddhist texts, engraved on 80,000 woodblocks between 1237 and 1248. The buildings of Janggyeong Panjeon, which date from the 15th century, were constructed to house the woodblocks, which are also revered as exceptional works of art. As the oldest depository of the Tripitaka , they reveal an astonishing mastery of the invention and implementation of the conservation techniques used to preserve these woodblocks.
Temple d'Haeinsa Janggyeong Panjeon, les dépôts des tablettes du Tripitaka Koreana
Le temple d'Haeinsa, sur le mont Gaya, abrite le Tripitaka Koreana , collection la plus complète de textes du canon bouddhiste, gravés sur 80 000 tablettes de bois entre 1237 et 1248. Destinés à recevoir ces tablettes – documents vénérés autant qu'œuvre d'art exceptionnelle –, les bâtiments du Janggyeong Panjeon datent du XVe siècle et sont les plus anciens dépôts du Tripitaka . Ils démontrent une maîtrise stupéfiante dans la conception et la mise en œuvre des techniques de conservation de ces tablettes de bois.
معبد هينسا غانغ غيونغ بان جون ومخازن الألواح الخشبية تريباتاكا كوريانا
يحوي معبد هينسا القابع على قمة كايا التريباتاكا كوريانا التي تعتبر أكثر مجموعات الشرائع البوذية اكتمالاً والتي حفرت على 80000 لوحة خشبية ما بين عامي 1237 و1248. أما أبنية غانغ غيونغ بان جون المعدّة لاحتضان هذه الألواح - التي تعتبر وثائق مقدسة بقدر ما هي تحفة فنية استثنائية –، فيعود تاريخها الى القرن الخامس عشر وتشكل أقدم مخزن للتريباتاكا ودلالة على مهارة فائقة في بلورة تقنيات حفظ هذه الالواح الخشبية وتنفيذها.
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海印寺位于伽耶山,寺中藏有高丽大藏经版。高丽大藏经版是现存最完整的佛教全书,全书用80 000块木版雕刻而成,完成于公元1237年至1248年。藏经阁建于公元15世纪,是专门为收藏高丽大藏经版而建造的,这一建筑也被认为是杰出的艺术作品。作为高丽大藏经版最古老的保存地,海印寺和藏经阁有着非常特别之处,其保存木版技术的发明和实施让世人惊叹不已。
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Монастырь Хэинса, Чангён-Пханджон – хранилище деревянных табличек «Трипитака Кореана»
Храм Хэинса на горе Каясан – это местонахождение «Трипитаки Кореана», наиболее полного собрания буддийских текстов, выгравированных на 80 тыс. деревянных дощечек в период 1237-1248 гг. Здания Чангён-Пханджон, относящиеся к XV в., были построены для размещения деревянных дощечек и также расцениваются как замечательные произведения искусства. Старейшие хранилища «Трипитаки» демонстрируют удивительное мастерство разработки и внедрения технологии, используемой для сохранения этих деревянных дощечек.
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Templo de Haeinsa y Janggyeong Panjeon, depósitos de tabletas de la Tripitaka Coreana
Situado en el monte Kaya, el templo de Haeinsa conserva la Tripitaka Coreana, la versión más completa de textos del canon budista, que fueron grabados en 80.000 tabletas de madera entre los años 1237 y 1249. Los edificios de Janggyeong Panjeon fueron construidos en el siglo XV para servir de depósito de esas veneradas tabletas, que son también reverenciadas como obras de arte excepcionales. En estos depósitos ha quedado patente la sorprendente maestría con que se han concebido y aplicado técnicas encaminadas a la conservación de esas tabletas de madera.
source: UNESCO/ERI
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Tempel van Haeinsa -Janggyeong Panjeon, bewaarplaats houtblokken Tripitaka Koreana
De tempel van Haeinsa, op de berg Gaya, is de thuisbasis van de 'Tripitaka Koreana': de meest complete collectie van boeddhistische teksten, wetten en verdragen, gegraveerd op 80.000 houtblokken tussen 1237 en 1248. Boeddhistische geleerden van over de hele wereld erkennen de nauwkeurigheid en superieure kwaliteit van de teksten. De houtblokken zijn ook waardevol vanwege het delicate houtsnijwerk van de Chinese karakters. Deze zijn zo regelmatig dat het lijkt alsof ze het werk zijn van een enkele hand. De gebouwen van Janggyeong Panjeon dateren uit de 15e eeuw en werden gebouwd om de houtblokken te huisvesten. Het zijn bijzondere kunstwerken. Als oudste bewaarplaatsen van de Tripitaka Koreana onthullen ze een verbazingwekkende inventiviteit in conservatietechnieken om de houtblokken zo goed mogelijk te bewaren.
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Outstanding Universal Value
Brief synthesis
The Janggyeong Panjeon in the Temple of Haeinsa, on the slopes of Mount Gayasan, is home to the Tripitaka Koreana, the most complete collection of Buddhist texts, laws and treaties extant, engraved on approximately 80,000 woodblocks between 1237 and 1248. The Haeinsa Tripitaka woodblocks were carved in an appeal to the authority of the Buddha in the defense of Korea against the Mongol invasions. They are recognized by Buddhist scholars around the world for their outstanding accuracy and superior quality. The woodblocks are also valuable for the delicate carvings of the Chinese characters, so regular as to suggest that they are the work of a single hand.
The Janggyeong Panjeon depositories comprise two long and two smaller buildings, which are arranged in a rectangle around a courtyard. As the most important buildings in the Haeinsa Temple complex, they are located at a higher level than the hall housing the main Buddha of the complex. Constructed in the 15th century in the traditional style of the early Joseon period, their design is characterized by its simplicity of detailing and harmony of layout, size, balance and rhythm.
The four buildings are considered to be unique both in terms of their antiquity with respect to this specialized type of structure, and for the remarkably effective conservation solutions that were employed in their design to protect the woodblocks from deterioration, while providing for easy access and storage. They were specially designed to provide natural ventilation and to modulate temperature and humidity, adapted to climatic conditions, thus preserving the woodblocks for some 500 years from rodent and insect infestation. The Haeinsa Temple complex is a famous destination for pilgrimages, not only among Korean Buddhists, but Buddhists and scholars from all over the world.
Criterion (iv): The depositories of the Haeinsa Temple are unique both in terms of their antiquity so far as this specialized type of structure is concerned, and also for the remarkably effective solutions developed in the 15th century to address the problem of storing and conserving the 80,000 woodblocks used to print the Buddhist scriptures (Tripitaka Koreana) against deterioration.
Criterion (vi): The Janggyeong Panjeon and its unique collection of 13th century Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks, outstanding for their artistry and excellent execution of engraving techniques, occupy an exceptional position in the history of Buddhism as the most complete and accurate corpus of Buddhist doctrinal texts in the world.
All components of the Haeinsa Temple complex, including the Janggyeong Panjeon and the Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks, are included within the boundaries of the designation.
The overall condition of the Janggyeong Panjeon is good, though continuous repairs are required to the woodblocks and to the shelves on which the woodblocks are stored.
The remarkably successful conservation solutions employed in the design of the depositories, which provide for natural ventilation and temperature and humidity control, have resulted in the protection of the woodblocks for over 500 years from rodent and insect infestation. Temperature and humidity levels should continue to be strictly monitored and controlled.
The woodblocks and depositories are of wood construction and are susceptible to fire damage and theft.
The temple complex, individual structures and woodblocks maintain a high degree of authenticity. The Janggyeong Panjeon continues to house the 80,000 woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana and maintains both their original form and function. Restoration of the four depositories was carried out during the past 30 years in order to conserve the buildings. The form, general layout and architectural detailing of the buildings have been preserved to this day without any major changes or damage.
Protection and management requirements
Haeinsa Temple is owned by the Korean Buddhist Jogye Order. The Daejanggyeongpan (Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks) and the Janggyeong Panjeon (the depositories) have been designated as National Treasures, under the Cultural Heritage Protection Act. The entire area of Haeinsa Temple is designated as a Historic Site and a 2,095 ha area around the temple complex including Mount Gayasan, is designated as a Scenic Site under the same Act. The entire area of Mount Gayasan surrounding the temple is designated and protected as a National Park by the Natural Parks Act, which acts as a buffer zone to the cultural heritage. Haeinsa Temple is also registered as a 'Buddhist Temple with historical significance' under the Traditional Buddhist Temple Preservation Law. These designations impose strict constraints on alterations to the property and buffer zone.
At the national level, the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) is responsible for establishing and enforcing policies for the protection of the temple complex and buffer zone, and allocating financial resources for the conservation of the Janggyeong Panjeon and the woodblocks. Gyeongsangnam-do Province provides additional financial support for the conservation of the temple and its woodblocks, and Hapcheon-gun County is directly responsible for the more specific operations of conservation and management. Haeinsa Temple is in charge of the day-to-day management and provides information on the woodblocks via its website. Regular day-to-day monitoring of the property is carried out and in-depth professional monitoring is conducted on a 3 to 4 year basis.
General conservation focuses on protecting the physical environment of the property together with various projects that concentrates on the documentary values of the Tripitaka woodblocks. Conservation work is conducted by Cultural Heritage Conservation Specialists who have passed the National Certification Exams in their individual fields of expertise. Although there is no specific management plan for the property, management policies of collaborating institutions under the various statutory designations provide the framework for conservation.
In order to protect the Janggyeon Panjeon and woodblocks from fire, full-time security guards and a 24-hour surveillance system are in place and a lightening rod has been installed. A mid-size fire pump truck is placed within the grounds of the temple for immediate response to fire. In order to control the temperature and humidity within the depositories, there are restrictions to visitor entry into the Janggyeong Panjeon.
Long Description
The Temple of Haeinsa, on Mount Gaya, is home to the Tripitaka Koreana , the most complete collection of Buddhist texts, laws and treaties extant, engraved on 80,000 woodblocks between 1237 and 1248. The buildings of Janggyeong Panjeon, which date from the 15th century, were constructed to house the woodblocks, which are also revered as exceptional works of art. As the oldest depository of the Tripitaka (Three Baskets), they reveal an astonishing mastery of the invention and implementation of the conservation techniques used to preserve these woodblocks.
The Haeinsa Tripitaka woodblocks were carved in an appeal to the authority of the Buddha in the defence of Korea against the Mongol invasions. They are recognized by Buddhist scholars around the world for their outstanding accuracy and superior quality. Chinese Buddhist scholars have also used the Tripitaka Koreana as a reference in their compilations. The woodblocks are also valuable for the delicate carving of the Chinese characters, so regular as to suggest that they are the work of a single hand.
The collection is also an invaluable cultural heritage because of its outstanding historical significance and associations with ideology, religion, historical events and the experiences of individuals. Among Korea's historic Buddhist temples, three are recognized as the Three Jewels of Korean Buddhism. Haeinsa, the largest temple in Korea, is known as the Dharma Jewel Temple because it houses the woodblock texts. Originally the term 'Dharma Jewel' (poppa ) referred to Buddhist doctrine or the compilation of the Buddha's teachings, which form the basis of Buddhist laws. As the Haeinsa woodblock depositories house the most complete and accurate version of the scriptures in the world, they are a famous destination for pilgrimages, not only among Korean Buddhists but also Buddhists and scholars from all over the world. There are some 500 monks living at Haeinsa today, studying the Buddha's teachings and guarding the Tripitaka Koreana . The depositories at Haeinsa are extremely rare in that they were built for the express purpose of housing the woodblocks; 18th- and 19th-century buildings for the same purpose in China and Japan are inferior in design and construction. They are also among the largest wooden structures in the world.
This is a distinctive cultural heritage testifying to the development of important cultural assets, society, art, science and industry. The depositories were built in the traditional wooden architectural style of the early Joseon period and are unparalleled not only for their beauty but also for their scientific layout, size and faithfulness to function, i.e. preservation of the woodblocks. They were specially designed to provide natural ventilation and to modulate temperature and humidity, adapted to climatic conditions and thus preserving the precious woodblocks for some 500 years undamaged by rodent or insect infestation.Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC
Historical Description
Haeinsa Temple is Situated on Mount Kaya (1430 m), one of Korea's most beautiful mountains which, because of its rugged terrain, has been immune from the ravages of war that have plagued Korea throughout its history.
The temple was first built in 802 during the United Shilla Kingdom, and has been restored and enlarged on a number of occasions. The Changgyong P'ango are the four depositories used to store the 80,000 woodblocks used to print the Tripitaka Koreana. Their original form is uncertain: it is known, however, that the Queen ordered their restoration in 1481 during the reign of the Choson King Sejo, the work being completed in 1488. Sudarajang, one of the main depositories, was restored in 1622 and the other main depository, Poppojon, in 1624 (as shown by a dedication found during restoration work in 1964). They remain intact and in use for their original purpose today.
The Haeinsa Changgyong p'ango depositories house the world's most complete and accurate version of the Tripitaka, the complete Buddhist canons. They were carved to replace the first Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks, carved during the reign of King Hyonjong (reigned 1010-31) in the hopes of protecting the Koryo kingdom from invasion by the Khitan people of Mongolia. The first set of woodblocks were carved during the Mongol invasion of 1232. The seat of the Koryo court was moved to Kanghwa Island in that year, at the beginning Of a long episode of resistance. The project began in 1237 with the woodblocks for two volumes, comprising a total of 113 books, and was completed twelve years later with the woodblocks for the three-book index, making a total of 1496 volumes (6568 books) Of Buddhists teachings, sutras, and rules.
The Haeinsa Tripitaka Koreana is considered to be the most accurate Of all extant Tripitaka texts using Chinese characters because at the time of carving the National preceptor Sugi, the Buddhist monk in charge of the carving, thoroughly compared them with the contents Of texts extant at that time, including the Northern Sung Chinese version, the Khitan version, and the first version of the Tripitaka Koreana, to correct errors and replace missing characters. His revisions are recorded in the thirty-volume Record of the Revisions of the Tripitaka. The Haeinsa Tripitaka Koreana is the only Tripitaka to include material found in the Northern Sung and Khitan versions, which are almost non-existent today. In addition, the Haeinsa Tripitaka Koreana includes the pop won Churim, IIch'ae Kyongumui, and Naejon Suhamumso, three texts that would otherwise have remained unknown.
They were carved in Namhae (South Kyongsang province), and after their completion were stored in the Taejanggyong p'andang, outside the west gate of the Kanghwa Fortress. A ceremony was held to celebrate their completion in 1251; they were moved first to Sonwonsa Temple on Kanghwa Island in 1318 and to the present depositories in 1398, because of frequent foreign invasions towards the end of the Koryo period. Records indicate that the king went to the Yongsan River (now the Han River) to supervise personally the transportation of the woodblocks.Source: Advisory Body Evaluation


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Upside down, backwards, and out of control . . .
In the spirit of being fair to readers, I thought I should let people know what what to look for as well as what to avoid. For airline travel, I covered the what-to-look-for in the Jet Blue article below. On the other hand, you may want to avoid Continental after reading the story about the Continental flight from Caracas to Newark a couple of weeks ago. You can read the story on the Elliott First Aid For Travel blog.
Continental has a Customer First program which states:"Continental Airlines is dedicated to providing a level of service to our customers that makes us a leader in the airline industry today. We understand that to do this we need to have a product we are proud of and employees who like coming to work everyday. Objective evidence shows that we are leading the industry in customer service."
I should mention that Jet Blue had a similar fiasco with unreasonably treated passengers recently and it resulted in the CEO/Founder apologizing and realizing he needed to step down.
True to their characters, Jet Blue stepped up and Continental is unlikely to do so.
You should also note in these false imprisonment fiascoes that the airlines are not alone in their incompetence. The airport managers who don't help by opening a gate or getting buses out to unload passengers are also complicit.
Every company in the world will mess up once in a while or inherit a situation not of their own making. It's how they react to it that matters most.
Continental has flights into Burlington from Boston and Newark. Good luck.
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- Mohanapriya Rajasekaran
- Havant
- United Kingdom
Human Resource Management - Student, School of Management, University of Southampton, UK
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Can we change today's stringent education system? Can we bring the right balance between creativity and academics?
The present education system embeds the fear of making mistakes (from which we can learn) deep into our minds.
There has to be a balance between creativity and academics. We are so engulfed in improving the products and technology each year (wont be wrong even if I said each month in fact!), that the education system is still what it used to be 50 or more years ago. We are failing to bring that balance!
P.S - Share your views on your education system as well, even if it contradicts my point of view. It would be a set of valuable ideas that can implemented in education systems that are still lagging behind in time.
Fritzie -
Jan 6 2013: You write that the present educational system embeds fear of making mistakes deep into our minds. I think this may be true in some classrooms, schools, or systems but is very far from universal. Fostering creativity and risk-taking (including making mistakes) is well understood in the field of education as important practice and has been for some time. I do not doubt your experience but only want to assure you that that experience is far from universal.
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I agree with Greg that your taking twenty-five years to determine what you want to do and what you are best at may not be a result of your school system. One learns this through inquiry and the experience of trying things for long enough that one can really feel what doing the work at the level of practice is like. This takes time. The role of education is very much to lay the groundwork for your experimentation with a broad array of potential options, much of which will occur when you are no longer in the lower grades.
I see you live in the UK. Is it still true that one specializes there very young?
Jan 6 2013: Yes its definitely not universal... It does seem to be changing but at a very slow pace though... it would take a long time to eradicate some stringent education systems that still exists...Jan 6 2013: you might also want to check out this talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.htmlJan 6 2013: Well I agree to the point that there is no use blaming the overall education system... But it does play a certain role.. at least in most developing countries... the fear of not making it big one day by choosing creative job like dancing, painting, drama and so on... I can at least talk about the statistics in my country that I know the best.. Just a hand full of people in 1000's I know are into creative field.. And It was not the education that helped them choose to do something creative.. It was the fact that they had to either choose between academics and creativity... its this lack of balance I am talking about....
There are quite a number of people who feel a creative job is not as respectful as Engineers, Doctors, Scientists, Management and so on..
And I am glad you found the best of the education system out there... But if you look at the whole picture.. the percentage of kids who went to such schools is very less...
daniel hehir
Jan 6 2013: Hi Mohanapriya,
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Take a look at the Steiner School movement. Also called Waldorf Schools in the USA. Creativity is a part of every class from 1st grade up. Math, language, everything has a creative impulse. Google it !
Jan 6 2013: Thanks for the heads up... But Lets not please narrow it to systems in USA or UK...
daniel hehir
Jan 6 2013: They are all over the world! Even in China now I hear.
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greg dahlen
Jan 6 2013: Well, it seems like you're throwing out too many different criticisms here. It's hard to know if they're all related, or separate, or what.
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I think there's a good opportunity to do both academics and creative work in the schools I went to. I could take a math class or an English class for academics, and an art or drama class for creativity. I would say that some academic classes, such as English, allow one to be creative. I guess there's different kinds of creativity, academic creativity and artistic creativity.
Whether the system allowed me to think independently...I think it did. The professors encouraged discussion, which gives the kids a chance to think independently and self-directedly. How about you? Did you have discussions in class? Did you participate and speak up when you had them?
I don't know about the fear of making mistakes. It doesn't seem bad to have a fear of making mistakes, after all you don't want to make the mistake of stepping off a curb when a car is coming, or you might get hit.
I wonder if the education system is really to blame for you taking a long time to find what you want to do. After all, some kids went through the same system you did, and they discovered what they want to do at a young age. Maybe some people just take longer than others. I'm glad you finally found it.Jan 26 2013: Ofcourse we can change. As a coach using my horse with the coachees it is very clear that energy and motion from within- the horse and the coachee - are very good means of education to get the message across.Jan 22 2013: I think the word "balance" implies separation and that the two pieces form a whole which has equal parts. I think the best solution for today's education system is to blend the two elements so that the two are indistinguishable. There needs to be an entirely new curriculum created by revolutionizing the methods with which knowledge is imparted to students. The tools need to be sensational as well as tactile. And learning should involve all five senses, not just sight and sound. There is also an incredible limit put on what art, music, theater and dance educators can teach students. So many branches of those disciplines are never covered under the pain of one restraint or another. Time is a concern, as well as testing. But I say, there can be ways made if there is a will to make them. Curriculum has to be broadened to include more options. By doing this, we would, in essence be introducing our basic mechanical microbial brains to a primordial ooze of opportunity. Our society, which was once rich with master-level artisans, is now scraping the bottom of the barrel for specialists. If education systems provided more of a blended teaching method, we will see new fresh talent emerge in all of the subjects, not just the language skills, mathematics and scientific arenas. Some may say, "Easier said than done," but is that right? After all we as a human race has done, all the marvelous things we've accomplished, hasn't the meaning of 'easy' changed? Doesn't 'easy' just mean that there is a procedure in place that everyone follows? Well procedure doesn't spring out of the ground. Anything that is easy now was once difficult. It is practice and passion which makes the difficult easy. I think by combining our respective wills, we can find a better way to educate our students and give them more options by really *enriching* their minds instead of just standardizing them.Jan 8 2013: In any university program, there are a certain number of elective classes that are required to complete a degree. These are the choice of the student.
The balance is already there.
Besides, nothing is stopping anybody from taking additional classes, going to a museum, reading a book, listening to music, or taking up a creative hobby like painting or playing the piano on their own.
Jan 8 2013: There are still many kids who are not motivated to go on their own and do things. They don't know the importance of extra curricular activities as much as they know about maths or science. But if it was a compulsory part of an education system it would be more effective wouldn't it?
Jan 8 2013: If THEY don't know what they like, then what system would? In the end, you are talking about motivation, not opportunities. The opportunities are there.
You give kids too little credit. If a child likes to be active, they will pursue it on their own with very little prompting from anyone. If they are a natural couch potato, they probably wont.Jan 6 2013: "Can we change today's stringent education system? Can we bring the right balance between creativity and academics?"
Education in Europe and the US has already become much less stringent than it used to be, some countries may already have gone too far in this, in any case creativity is overrated, especially in the absence of a solid knowledge base: it doesn't really help you in most jobs and when it does it's often the sort of creativity that most people do not have in them and can't be taught either. On some level school is supposed to be a little stringent and boring, at least from a child's perspective.
Jan 7 2013: "creativity is overrated, especially in the absence of a solid knowledge base" - Does that mean that to choose to be a professional artist or dancer one need to give up on their academics? If yes, Thats the missing balance I am talking about.
"Creativity doesn't really help you in most jobs and when it does it's often the sort of creativity that most people do not have in them and can't be taught either." - What sort of creativity are we talking about here that cannot be thought? Obviously a professional artist cannot seek a computer engineer job, but he definitely can be a illustrator or inspire graphic designing, interior or even production design. Cant they?? Most jobs are interrelated and knowledge sharing derives the best outcome.
"On some level school is supposed to be a little stringent and boring, at least from a child's perspective." - I appreciate the difference of opinion here. Does that mean a child has to be forced to learn something?? But schools that facilitate more independent and creative learning have had better outcome.
Jan 7 2013: "Does that mean that to choose to be a professional artist or dancer one need to give up on their academics? If yes, Thats the missing balance I am talking about."
No, it means we shouldn't turn the education upside down for that minute fraction of students who will later become professional artists and dancers.
"Does that mean a child has to be forced to learn something?"
Yes, at some point a child has to be forced to learn math, science and history. It will make them better citizens and chances are that when they're older they'll come to understand why they needed to be taught those things. This may sound harsh but I believe it's true: if a graphic designer gets held back we'd just have obnoxious advertisements that look a little different from the ones we have today, when schools stop giving students the math they need to become engineers and scientists then the lights will go out and planes will fall from the sky.
"But schools that facilitate more independent and creative learning have had better outcome."
There's nothing wrong with creative methods of learning (such as video games), as long as useful things are being learned. The problem is schools where kids get to choose to not take math, science or history at all, because most kids would choose not to take those even though society needs people who are profficient in those fields.
Jan 9 2013: I really do agree with you on some point here John. There is a great deal of functional practicality in students learning their simple arithmetic and basic language grammar that makes traditional forms of learning seem sometimes mundane to a student. I especially appreciate how you acknowledge the merit in fun, alternative ways of learning (video games? Booyah!). But if I could share a relevant story...
Here in Alberta, Canada there are three levels of math courses that a high school student can enroll themselves in. In grade 10 I was taking Pure Math (the highest level), and though I wasn't particularly struggling with any of the concepts, I found myself losing interest in the concepts that we were studying. One class we were reviewing the Pythagorean Theorem, and after thinking to myself decided to put my hand up and ask the questions I was fighting myself over. "Why do we need this? What can we use this for after school? Why is this important?" I realize that those questions seem rather naive, and I can concede to that knowing what I know now after my own private explorations of mathematics (a right angle can be used to demonstrate the spiraling effect of the golden ratio, for example), but my teacher could not answer me. She replied with a simple, "Because it's in the curriculum." I didn't accept that answer. That was not practical to me. If she herself were to be even slightly more creative in her teaching methods she could have began explaining about the relationship between the theorem and the golden ratio, and from there have extrapolated any other mathematical concepts that she needed to teach in the curriculum. My curiosity for math ended that day, and I only just recently rediscovered it.
I'm of the opinion here that the pedagogy of hard subjects like math, science, and history, can, and should, be approached differently, because the amount of students who lose interest as a result of the teaching method aren't exactly few. Call it creative education.Jan 6 2013: And I guess the first para on my experience in very subjective.. and in a way its diverting the whole intension of this topic... Thanks for pointing it out...


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