30 April, 2009

Conform early

It seems teachers are still employing the old exercise of asking children to write about "what i did on holiday".

The difference, as demonstrated by my boss's ~8-year-old daughter's attempt, is that the handwritten, hand-illustrated efforts I (vaguely) recall have been replaced by Powerpoint presentations.

I suppose it's to the children's credit that they can do something I can't, but what about the opportunity for unstructured creativity?

I think I've slightly died, inside.