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The article about Sir Ken Robinson reminded me of an incident while visiting our Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town. An adult visitor stopped me between the Kelp Forest Tank and the Predator Tank with this question: Are you the Merry Scholar? Didn't you once come to our school and tell us a story about two rain drops?
When I answered in the affirmative he proceeded to quote a line which I had recited during my presentation which had taken place at least 15 years before our meeting the Aquarium.
At no time have I had this story published so he must of remembered this information, this quotation from the time he was at junior school.
My question is: how come governments are not making the education of thinking through theatre compulsory? In other words wouldn't it be a good idea to have a regular period per term/quarter set aside for visiting theatre companies to focus on a curricula-based? If one person can influence one other person to retain information for fifteen years through a dramatised story about raindrops surely a group of four professional actors can do so much more for a class of children? David G Muller, South Africa
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The article about Sir Ken Robinson reminded me of an incident while visiting our Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town. An adult visitor stopped me between the Kelp Forest Tank and the Predator Tank with this question: Are you the Merry Scholar? Didn't you once come to our school and tell us a story about two rain drops?
When I answered in the affirmative he proceeded to quote a line which I had recited during my presentation which had taken place at least 15 years before our meeting the Aquarium.
At no time have I had this story published so he must of remembered this information, this quotation from the time he was at junior school.
My question is: how come governments are not making the education of thinking through theatre compulsory? In other words wouldn't it be a good idea to have a regular period per term/quarter set aside for visiting theatre companies to focus on a curricula-based? If one person can influence one other person to retain information for fifteen years through a dramatised story about raindrops surely a group of four professional actors can do so much more for a class of children?
David G Muller, South Africa
General | Environment | Business | Economy | Transport