The Power of Art: Rising Above System Relevance With Michaell Magrutsche
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This week, on The Parents' Solution, I had an interestingly wild dialogue with Michaell Magrutsche. Michaell is an creativity awareness educator into art and all things alternative. He was born in Vienna, Austria, and has dyslexia and dysgraphia. Because of his experiences as a student, he is now an advocate for neurodiversity.
Michaell shared about living with a feeling of self-shame coming from teachers and the education system. He highlighted the fact that geniuses and individuals who are socially lower-functioning are both treated as outcasts in the system while average is celebrated. The fact that some students require extra effort from the teacher in creating unique lesson plans is generally seen as a problem, not an opportunity for problem solving, change, or growth.
For Michaell, creating-art like the shop class gave him a sense of belonging. He says that art is a universal language that at its highest form is simply creating art for art’s sake. We are social human creator-animals. Michaell referred to art as an "inherent-human superpower" along with healthy human dialogue (which is our 2nd inherent superpower) and adaptability our third.
Michael made an interesting statement: "Kids are more in tune, but they get conditioned out of it."
It is important for children to be conscious of their uniqueness, so they can find a way to do something that is an extension of who they are and love as a career, not just a side hobby. It is crucial that the education system and parents work together to help each child reach their full potential by unveiling their uniqueness/abilities, no matter what their systemic strengths and weaknesses are. In order for this to happen, the definition of success needs to change from making high grades, to making smart decisions for the unique qualities of each individual student and to sense fulfillment as a gauge to find each’s uniqueness.
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