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"95% of students are creative and are only 5% of adults, what happened?"

are the words of Saturnino de la Torre, professor of Curriculum and Educational Innovation at the University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhich says it all. Education kills creativity is not worth its name, remains a mere statement .... Statement "what ...? Just take a look at the conflicts that engulf us try to understand that is underpinning our teaching.

The problems are a challenge to our creativity, whether in our schools do not encourage ourselves what we are doing is getting smaller for these problems, humanity will have a "liliputenses." A man who delegates his creativity in others it is giving more than their freedom is their richest desposeyéndose essence.

Our teaching must be faithful defender of the essence, which has to radically change the educational environment. It is not instill anything in our classroom, but to make them a fertile ground for the seeds of humanity that is our children and adolescents, seeds that contain great treasures and mysteries. Recognize as such, our children and students, teaching becomes our eyes, becoming real treasure hunters.

Saturnino de la Torre for years has taught teachers to become these treasure hunters. I invite you to enjoy their words, their experience, their creativity, but all of his presence, what you enjoy!

"When a person is recognized, grow"

interview on "The Counter" from "La Vanguardia" by Ima Sanchis (03/04/2011)

I have 69 years. I was born in Valladolid and live in Barcelona.Doctor of Arts. I've been working, stimulating creativity and research on 38 years. I have 2 children and 2 grandchildren. In I think political priority over the ethics of discourse. I believe in transcendence.

What have you learned as a teacher?

important thing is the love, treatment, building trust ... Convey to students the idea that you believe in it.

What everyone?

Every student has at least one ability that makes him stand out, we help you find it, because when a person is recognized, it grows and comes to learning. Science is showing us that thought and emotion are linked, hence the creation of a new concept ...

Sentipensar.

There is no human activity, says biologist Maturana, not an emotion that becomes established and as an act possible. Both thinking and acting occur in the space determined by emotions.

And what is brought into the classroom?

Aware that is learned throughout the brain. Word, image, music, symbols, they reinforce each other.

Does that mean you have to relate music to math and language?

Yes, working with integration projects in various disciplines, incorporating the life in the classroom.

And what we get with that?

So far our education has been based on packaged content and the student has fueled this type of food.

not sound very good.

need other supplies that will help them develop skills, knowledge, skills, attitudes, values \u200b\u200b... We are training the person to be.

Tell me your experiences.

Some young people have come to school without feeling any emotion towards knowledge, simply because we've got the excitement of the classroom.

Pure process for the future.

"Sentipensar.
fundamentals and strategies to re-enchant
education" is a book that
wrote in collaboration with Maria Candida Moraes

Right. We must change awareness, education reforms are needed basic vision, to realize how important the values, relationships. My role is not to teach but to make students learn.

is clear that something is wrong.

We've gone through four major stages in education. In the agricultural era the foundation of education were the beliefs. In the eighteenth century came the industrialization and with it the training, knowledge of science. In the eighties appear telecommunications and move from knowledge to skills, of believing to have: knowledge, wealth, power ...

And now?

We are in the know-how, and we must educate ourselves to be. To oversimplify, to educate is to get the skills and goodness in people. In every human being there is no creativity and goodness, why not try to share it?

Creativity is one of their songs.

Thirty-eight years of research. In childhood we have a great creative potential which then falls asleep and emerges in the best, given the need, the face of adversity. Would not it be better to incorporate it as a tool from your childhood?

How?

That's the easy and you should stop doing. 95% of students are creative and are only 5% of adults, what happened?

Did you miss the road?

Yes, closed patterns of education and society. The student has the ability to create ideas, to invent, to vibrate, excited. And emotion is the most important standard for creativity to emerge.

And to keep it afloat?

favoring expression and educated according to age: in early childhood is expressed through fantasy school age, adventure and incitement to discovery in adolescence on the challenges, and youth in the pursuit of innovations and the social. And it works through integration projects.

And what is the essence of these projects?

The road is create the conditions for the emergence of creativity in them and applaud. If a student is involved with something creative to applaud literally. The feeling he has for this recognition of his teacher and classmates is unforgettable. If you notice a small thing, it multiplies.

Creatives are many. What is to be applauded?

Creativity must take value out of oneself for the other benefits, and when others receive it and get excited and feel and touch them, creativity is spread and multiply. It's about creating skills, attitudes, habits, core competencies.

understand.

must be on flexibility, which is one of the important values \u200b\u200btogether with the adaptation of creativity, who has assumed no failures because they will be able to move, adapt to situations.

... Condition for happiness.

is create a scenario rather than a classroom, to use all resources that have a component emotional. Behind every great idea is an emotion, a deep passion, a desire, a need to make and communicate.

Do not ask too much into the classroom?

When I am teaching mathematics, with the way I am passing to implicit values. When I become aware of them and do take a value more explicit: the meaning.

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began as a professor of elementary and high school until he understood that that had to be was the teacher. He has been coordinator of the Educational Research and Consulting, promoter of the International Network for Creativity and chaired the Association for Creativity. His whole life has revolved around educational innovation, creativity and stimulation, with over forty titles. "Education is bringing out the best in people," he said. For him, it's never to late to learn live and interact, so driving the III International Forum Innovation and Creativity. Adversity as opportunity (sidtransdiciplina@yahoo.es).

"A good teacher has to have some pleasant, a bit of a poet and a lot of pirate." Is an expression of Saturnino De La Torre, do you feel curious about what can make piracy teaching ...? The phrase was said in his speech at the "Children First Congress of the Third Millennium" . I propose to unravel the mystery by seeing and hearing his speech at the congress. Sit and get ready to enjoy 15 delicious minutes.

feeling-sentipensar Education - Speech by Saturnino de la Torre from arcoirisdan on Vimeo .

If you want to comfortably read the poem with which he concluded by Saturnino go to the following address:
ninostercermilenio.blogspot.com / 2010 / 04 / special-success-of-congress . html

can see a summary of the Congress of the Third Millennium Children:
ninostercermilenio.blogspot.com / 2010 / 10 / video-summary-of-congress-children-del.html

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FOLLOWED THEIR DREAMS AND APPROACH TO THE STARS ...

"I tell young people and young people is essential to let the heart guide you. Follow their star, to follow the sentiments of his heart. No matter what the goal that one is proposed; the priority is to enjoy the road, because this is as important as the goal itself. Do not let anyone tell you can not. "

These are words of Franklin Chang Diaz , the man who has been walking while the space outside a spacecraft. If we give our schools the previous similar messages, and teachers were trying to embody, we would be changing the foundations of our society towards a culture in which people would be giving their best. In this world, sharing our dreams with others would be the greatest wealth, we would live from their dignity and brotherhood great creators replace competitiveness. Then we could talk about real progress.

Chang has had four years when he climbed onto the roof of his house to watch the stars ... it was his first ride space. This experience probably prepared his mind to be led by your heart, perhaps he realized that the wisdom that lives in it is superior to any knowledge, any thoughts. The countdown had begun ... contemplate those same stars from outer space itself ... nothing could stop being an astronaut ... Such is the power of dreams, unstoppable ...

Now let Chang himself talks about his experiences:

interview on "The Counter" from "La Vanguardia" by Ima Sanchis (03/02/2011)

60. , American national, born in San Jose, Costa Rica and Guanacaste and alive in Houston. Married, 4 daughters. The planet is suffering the weight of humanity, we must go into space. I am a believer. I'm more interested how the universe who did it.

Yes, I've been out there alone, the only thing that separates you from the vacuum is the fine display of the diving helmet. There are moments of fear, when the vehicle enters

on the dark side of Earth.

And the planet go?
... And you the feeling of loneliness pervades. Do you think you might have left floating in space and surrounded by stars.

Would you changed that feeling?
Yes, the world seen from space is so quiet that it is impossible not to be saddened by the wars that are happening.

Well we send into space to those who call collateral damage victims.
I do not feel a citizen of a country but a planet. We are all astronauts live in a spacecraft that is our planet. One day the Earth will be the natural park of mankind, a beautiful place to come back to see our roots and not a shattered and unrecoverable. Space is the survival of mankind.

a Latino to become an astronaut is not common.
I left Costa Rica in the hope of being at age 18, when space exploration was in its infancy. But as a child and was an astronaut, poured some chairs in a cardboard box and sat down to do the countdown, and visiting other planets.

What did your father?
was foreman had not been to school. We were a middle class family. A study was hard for me and I was rebellious counterculture against the Vietnam War, peace ... I was never anything special, I went to mass.

And when was to be special?
Never, he was just stubborn, I wanted to go into space and be a scientist, despite not being a good student. I was lucky, I came to the U.S. when was the land of opportunity, with 50 dollars in his pocket and unable to speak English and there were many people who helped me. I worked hard and got a scholarship.

What has failed?
a child I had problems in school, then with my parents. When I came to the U.S. I had great difficulty learning the language. The first school that I ran did not accept me, and I failed my first attempt at my doctorate. I had difficulties, but always a failure brought a better result.

What have you learned?
What you have to be persistent, have faith and optimism. Now I'm in a new chapter of my life, I just got out of NASA and I created my own company, another adventure.

Space transportation at high speed.

Yes, I have patented a plasma engine that reduces the flight time. If you go to Mars invest seven to eight months, with technology VASIMR arrive in six weeks, to 55 km per second. The farther we can go faster.

Where will we live?
Probably in the next decade establish bases on the Moon and in the decade of the 30 we'll be on Mars, whose atmosphere will allow us to greenhouse plants that produce oxygen and nutrients. There will be self-sufficient colonies. Then colonize the moons of Jupiter.

But there is a planet as beautiful as the earth.
In our solar system, but have discovered hundreds of planets orbiting the nearest stars and look forward to plenty of planets like Earth. We will scatter throughout the universe.

And the aliens think?
Life is the norm, not the exception, and probably no life more advanced than ours and less advanced life, the question is: Will we be able to respect them?

¿...?
Have you seen Avatar? We hope that we do not make the same mistakes that were committed by the English with the Indians. Their children or their children's children will have to deal with it. These are the things that one asks when in space.

Not everything is beautiful from up there ...
The Earth is covered by a layer of scrap: thousands of dead satellites. Those who are in polar orbits are dangerous, they all are at the pole and there is a possibility of shock. When they do create a swarm of fragments flying to hyper, like bullets, and colliding with other satellites and destroy them.

Do you intend to rid the universe?
Yes, VASIMR. I want to lose those satellites to burn the Earth's atmosphere or throw the Sun

And turn the sun in the cosmic landfill?
The sun absorbs all these materials, the decay and become elements in the periodic table as oxygen, iron, platinum ... and integrated into the Sun, a sort of cosmic recycling.

What stimulated your imagination?
One night, after four years, I woke my sister, who was six, and climbed onto the roof of the house to eat oranges and stargazing. My parents never learned. Children are born explorers, are the adults who begin to shut the door, and, well, we just boxed.

is not appropriate.
Today I accept the career I chose, my cut-off mark would be insufficient. If you cut a path very talented young man lost along the way, each has its tempo. Let them pursue their dreams, anyone tell you can not.

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is a privilege that students can listen to the PCB of the UB to the doctor in Nuclear Engineering has made three spacewalks to 16 hours and has sensitivity and intelligence to learn it humanely, that has reinvented the 54 years creating the Astra Rocket Company, a Houston-based laboratory and in Costa Rica, do not forget their origins, where it designs and produces rocket engines that will revolutionize the future. A man of humble origins who devotes part of his money and his time to helping the poorest children in their land and that the drugs do not end with young minds. No one comes to nothing without the help of others.

Franklin Chang is now embarked on a new adventure, trying to make our dreams of traveling the solar system can be realized. Has created a company that is designing a plasma engine so important that it would reduce travel time and economic costs, two vital factors in space exploration. Let this dream-maker explain it to us by word of mouth