education as creativity , 3rd weekly message to members of facebook TheLearningRevolution group written by Elena Borodina

2. News First of all I would like to remind you of our youtube channel which we want to convert in a source of inspiration, education and storage of information that we discuss in our group which is available to all. Videos can be sorted and added by any member of a group. The idea is to dedicate this channel not only to spreading awareness about new learning possibilities, alternative education, etc, but to make useful information available for every learner at one place. In other words we are creating our own educational center ;) which will be a very practical thing for self-learners as well, more about this read in a discussion TheLearningRevolutionyoutube channel also we have an idea of collaboration between different kinds of groups , so that they could also contribute to this group and our channel

3. Education is not about aquisition of knowledge, it's about HOW we apply knowledge and experience we already have, where "how“ is always a matter of creativity.

4. An interesting thing is that we usually tend to underestimate our creative abilities thinking of them as something that exist quite separetely from our inteligence. In fact creativity belongs to us naturelly , even it belongs to our inteligence, all we need to do is to pull it from inside, to cultivate it, to show our new ideas to others without fear of not being accepted, looking "rediculous" in the eyes of colleagues or school-college-mates.

5. In short we should be creative in our lives, not only in fields which are considered to be made for exposing creativity such as music, drawing, dancing, design, etc., but to be creative in whatever we do, in our daily activities. Being creative is not to do things mechanically, but dedicating our imagination to it. It means to involve ourselves completely in any particular activity,not only to DO, but to BE in this activity.

6. Therefore we become really responsible for our activities, we engage ourselves in what we do and we start really love doing it ------- > we become more initiative. By doing this we help ourselves to discover who we really are, for real education it is about understanding who we are through activities ( experiences), through knowledge. There is nothing more exciting than discovering oneself, learning, finding new things, as true education is never ending process.

7. It doesn't stop with official graduation of any institution ( school, college, university, etc) and it even didn't start in any of this institutions. Education is what we really interested in, what we are passionate about and if we are lucky enough to know our true passions then we dedicate our time to it. In other case, if we don't know what it is that excites our lives , what we are really interested in , to what dedicate our life, it lets us search and try discovering it. In some sense it becomes our journey.

9. Please, share your ideas on a wall and in our discussions. If you want to say something to a whole group, feel free to write a weekly message.