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The redemption of the robot: My encounter with education through art,
La redención del robot es de interés sociológico general, Herbert Read se ha preocupado por volcar en ella la síntesis depurada de una larga pré sus revolucionarias ideas sobre los aspectos sociales de una nueva filosofía de la educación. El hombre, es el robot, dice Read, ese tipo de hombre que está formando esta sociedad nuestra, tan profundamente trastornada, tan autoritaria, tan deshumanizada. Y para redimir al robot Read nos propone un sistema que elimine los "modos lógicos y racionalistas" que predominan en la educación al servicio de determinadas estructuras, reemplazándolos con "la educación por el arte", que no ha de consistir meramente en incluir al arte como una materia del programa de estudios, sino en tomarlo como base para una educación estética que abarque todas las materias y sus interrelaciones básicas. Al hacerlo, el autor ataca frontalmente los usuales y más consagrados métodos pedagógicos, que reprimen la imaginación y la individualidad. Considera que este cambio no sólo ayudaría a que cada ser humano se desarrollara plena, armónica y libremente sino que también traería una gran ola de vitalidad solidaria a un mundo que se encuentra al borde del abismo. En cada página de este libro se descubre a un Read enamorado de la humanidad, que procura ayudar al hombre a que se libere de sus cadenas mentales
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Published January 1, 1970
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Herbert Read
410 books94 followersSir Herbert Edward Read, (1893 - 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Politically, Read considered himself an anarchist, albeit in the English quietist tradition of Edward Carpenter and William Morris.
Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Art & the publisher and editor-in-chief of Jung's collected works in English.
On 11 November 1985, Read was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.
He was the father of the well-known writer Piers Paul Read, the BBC documentary maker John Read, the BBC producer and executive Tom Read, and the art historian Ben Read.
Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Art & the publisher and editor-in-chief of Jung's collected works in English.
On 11 November 1985, Read was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.
He was the father of the well-known writer Piers Paul Read, the BBC documentary maker John Read, the BBC producer and executive Tom Read, and the art historian Ben Read.
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April 22, 2018
6 stars. How I never came across this book before is beyond me. Just mind blowing. It’s is essentially about education and was written in 1966 but some of its themes and challenges it makes towards society are relevant and I dare say even more relevant today that they were back when he book read first wrote this incredibly challenging and conceptual book. he seems to be writing down Some of the nascent stages thoughts that I’ve had in the past on some really important topics like arts and education and world peace but obviously he’s taken to the 50th 60th and 70th dimension is way beyond what I would be able to develop these concepts into. Here are some of my favourite bits straight from the book:
Art is the name that we give to the only human activity that can establish a universal order in all be do and make in thought and an imagination. Education through art is education for peace.
For we cannot expect to create a moral consciousness by means of mass media; the radio the press and the cinema. Nor can we create a moral influence by words if we confine words to their intellectual usage.
It is impossible to know what constitutes a good society unless we know what defines a good individual. The self is determined by the values according to which it is and it can subordinate and integrate the rest of its values. If the values be dispersed and incoherent so is the self if they are organic and integrated so is the self. The unity of human personality is it soundness.
For an unseen universe is necessary to explain the seen
The love of others he said springs from self love and this is the source of human justice.
For as Rousseau pointed out long before Tolstoy took up the theme only makes manifest events already determined by moral causes.
I believe that it is a mistake to confine the teaching of art to appreciation for the implied attitude is too detached. I believe that art must be practised to be appreciated and must be taught in intimate apprenticeship. I believe that the teacher must be no less active than the people for arts cannot be learned by precepts or by any verbal instruction. It is properly speaking a contagion and passes like fire from spirit to spirit.
In society the interests of individuals are intertwisted with each other and cannot be separated. Men should be taught to assist each other.
The passage of those habits which we are adapted to receive i.e. to be taught is found in nature: from nature we must take that pattern and by habituating our children to that pattern.
Aristotle pointed out that moral Virtue the integrated personality as modern psychologists would say comes about as a result of habit. We are conditioned by nature to form habits.
By ignoring the essential priority of moral virtues by attempting to inculcate intellectual virtue into minds which have not received the necessary preparation (is dangerous)
Music painting the making of useful objects proportions of the living body and of plants these well if made to the basis of our educational methods instil into the Childs grace and harmony which will give it not merely a noble bearing also a noble character but only a graceful body but also a sober mind. It will do this since Plato long before the child is able to reason because it will Inculcate what he calls the instincts of relationship. Possessing this instinct the child would never do wrong in deed or in thought.
Whatever maybe the truth of this diary we do know for certain that the next stage is development stage of conceptual for is reached only by the gradual suppression of imagery. Now the whole Aristotle Ian tradition in education is so committed to the superiority of conceptual on logical processes of thought that all means have been taken to drive images out of the Childs mind and to make it beneficial thinking machine. It was experiment to established that images before and no useful function in abstract thoughts and the more abstract the thought the more intelligent it was assumed to be.
In all things moral and intellectual we should act on the belief that we really possess and we have conquered ourselves that we are made perfect by natural habits but slaves by social conventions and that until we have become accustomed to beauty we are not capable of truth and goodness for by beauty we need the principle of harmony which is the given order of the physical universe to whi how we confirm conform and live or to which we reject and die.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in mental chains. Neurosis crime insanity this about so many symptoms of the disorder is basic to our form of society.
There is on the one hand book education therefore thoughts words ideas reading about it in writing about it learning about it so exams about it and on the other hand we have games education which entails actions physical development competitive and physios and loyalty development and the team spirit but on the night to hand is there anything or any education in things themselves. There is no poetic experience. Internet has trained almost entirely by books and the weather is trained almost entirely by games but the reality is that we live in a world of things many things. Making things is a large part of a man’s life any man’s life and certainly The maturity of men are operatives of one kind or another and yet there is no education in things no education in the poetic experience itself. We grab an idea of the concept and obstruction a representation and we train now intellects regret balls and pads and one another’s and calls as the train our wills but the gratify things no such thing is this or that for itself know being only thoughts about being is only actions in relations to things and those beans. The poet is a grasper of Things. Art artistry is all a matter of poetry which is grasping reality and grasping things. Hence its importance.
I might as well confess at this point that I dearly grow more suspicious of what I can only call exhibitionist culture. Exhibitions of painting and sculpture of French tapestries or Australian totem poles. Concert of classical music of modern music of Chinese music opera is from Vienna or ballet from Russia yes they are all very entertaining little exhausting if we care to keep up with exhilarating pace of it all and no doubt it does increase the curious collection of old impressions or disconnected facts and half remembered names which we keep in some corner of a cerebellum and call knowledge and which we dig up from this cloudy and overcrowded receptacle when do you want to display our culture.
Discipline is I suppose a minute sorry word. Yes. Stop in a field us with images of Keynes and Castor oil please Sergeants and Sergeant Majors all the Dreary ritual of the Barrett square and the parade ground. How rarely do we remember that the word is derived from the same route as disciple a gentle word full of reverence and devotion. The proper meaning of disciple sorry of discipline is indeed discipline ship. When we get back to the original letting meaning of the word we find that it is a denticle the meaning of our word teaching; a word which implies pointing out showing the relationship of nasty to people discipline is involved in that relationship but I hope to show how different such discipline is from the discipline of the Barrack Square.
Even perfection will not be at the tedium of indefinite repetition. To sustain the seven location with the intensity of its first order requires more than learning. Adventure is essential name lead to search for new perfections.
The process of disintegration has not been uniform: there has been scientific adventure but no corresponding moral adventure.
Throw open the holes visible world to the Childs arousal as many desires as you like but don’t let him be overwhelmed by them. Teaching to discriminate all the best and the entire host of sensations which are aroused in him. Make him realise that he has within him and in measurable store of willpower which he can release when where and how necessity dictates
We must keep you said our seriousness serious things persists say our relationship to God and for the rest all of us should fall in with our role and spend life in making our play as perfect as possible. Man and his best is God‘s plaything the best way of conducting our lives is to play so as to please God. You should pass our lives Plato concluded in the playing of games certain games that is sacrifice song and dance in order to gain heavens grace.
Like Plato nature propose that we should look to nature which teaches us to hate the laissez Aller the two great freedom and implants the need for limited horizons for immediate duties which teaches the narrowing of perspectives. … And nature then points to the precise practice of art with a free ranging locating disposing and constructing in moments of inspiration or a chiefed only by the artists obedience to 1000 laws which by their very rigidness and precision defy all formulation by means of ideas.
We cannot avoid what is one of central problems of our civilisation and perhaps the prime source of its cultural weakness: the alienation of at least half the community from any practical skills from concrete formative activities of any kind
And that is why the vitality of civilisation always depends on the free functioning of the aesthetic process. That is why civilisation without arts parishes and wire technological civilisation will perish unless it can provide an outlet all rather an Internet for the shaping spiritOf the imagination.
The aim is not storing the passive mind with the various sorts of knowledge most and request as if the human soul were in a repository or banqueting room but to place it in such relations of circumstance a shit gradually excite it’s vegetating and germinating powers to produce new fruits of thought you conceptions and imaginations and ideas.
But as technology advances we are compelled to admit whether we belong to catalyst or to Communist society is that instead of transformation into a harmonious society we tend inevitably towards social disarmingly or schizophrenia to which the name alienation has been given. Alienation or self estrangement is a direct consequence of the division of labour and according to Marx begins to make its appearance in the historyOf society soon as there is separation between self activity and activity for the common interest. As long as a cleavage exists between the particular and a common interest marks argues man’s own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him which in sleeves him instead of being controlled by him.
To
‘ of society soon as there is separation between self activity and activity for the common interest. As long as the cleavage exists between the particular and the common interest marks argues man’s own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him which in slaved him instead of being controlled by him.
The governments of the states parties to this constitution on behalf of the People’s declare: since wars begin in the mines and then it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be construct it agents of each other’s ways and lives has been a common cause throughout the history of mankind of that suspicion and distrust between the peoples of the world through which the differences all too often broken into war.
If every inhabitants of the globe could be taught to read and write and if an organisation could provide them with what the cord objective textbooks of history and the problem of the solidarity of mankind would seem to the scientific humanist to be largely soft.c
There are millions of good respect of the seventh in Germany and week now clearly see that they in activity was perhaps the greatest crime of all settling the decisive factor in the fateful situation we are all implicated in the decadence of our civilisation and it is only to the extent that our dull and difference is fused to a white heat of moral indignation and consequent moral activity that the future can have any promise of greatness.
What men do makes what they are how they do what they do determine the quality of what they are
English jurists like Jeremy Bentham John Austin Sir Henry main who first began to discuss the international aspects of law 100 years ago. The term International was apparently invented by Jeremy Bentham to describe what he called that branch of jurisprudence dealing with mutual transactions between some friends as such. The obvious name should be universalism. Internationalism is illegal or political concept universalism is a philosophical concept.
Art is the name that we give to the only human activity that can establish a universal order in all be do and make in thought and an imagination. Education through art is education for peace.
For we cannot expect to create a moral consciousness by means of mass media; the radio the press and the cinema. Nor can we create a moral influence by words if we confine words to their intellectual usage.
It is impossible to know what constitutes a good society unless we know what defines a good individual. The self is determined by the values according to which it is and it can subordinate and integrate the rest of its values. If the values be dispersed and incoherent so is the self if they are organic and integrated so is the self. The unity of human personality is it soundness.
For an unseen universe is necessary to explain the seen
The love of others he said springs from self love and this is the source of human justice.
For as Rousseau pointed out long before Tolstoy took up the theme only makes manifest events already determined by moral causes.
I believe that it is a mistake to confine the teaching of art to appreciation for the implied attitude is too detached. I believe that art must be practised to be appreciated and must be taught in intimate apprenticeship. I believe that the teacher must be no less active than the people for arts cannot be learned by precepts or by any verbal instruction. It is properly speaking a contagion and passes like fire from spirit to spirit.
In society the interests of individuals are intertwisted with each other and cannot be separated. Men should be taught to assist each other.
The passage of those habits which we are adapted to receive i.e. to be taught is found in nature: from nature we must take that pattern and by habituating our children to that pattern.
Aristotle pointed out that moral Virtue the integrated personality as modern psychologists would say comes about as a result of habit. We are conditioned by nature to form habits.
By ignoring the essential priority of moral virtues by attempting to inculcate intellectual virtue into minds which have not received the necessary preparation (is dangerous)
Music painting the making of useful objects proportions of the living body and of plants these well if made to the basis of our educational methods instil into the Childs grace and harmony which will give it not merely a noble bearing also a noble character but only a graceful body but also a sober mind. It will do this since Plato long before the child is able to reason because it will Inculcate what he calls the instincts of relationship. Possessing this instinct the child would never do wrong in deed or in thought.
Whatever maybe the truth of this diary we do know for certain that the next stage is development stage of conceptual for is reached only by the gradual suppression of imagery. Now the whole Aristotle Ian tradition in education is so committed to the superiority of conceptual on logical processes of thought that all means have been taken to drive images out of the Childs mind and to make it beneficial thinking machine. It was experiment to established that images before and no useful function in abstract thoughts and the more abstract the thought the more intelligent it was assumed to be.
In all things moral and intellectual we should act on the belief that we really possess and we have conquered ourselves that we are made perfect by natural habits but slaves by social conventions and that until we have become accustomed to beauty we are not capable of truth and goodness for by beauty we need the principle of harmony which is the given order of the physical universe to whi how we confirm conform and live or to which we reject and die.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in mental chains. Neurosis crime insanity this about so many symptoms of the disorder is basic to our form of society.
There is on the one hand book education therefore thoughts words ideas reading about it in writing about it learning about it so exams about it and on the other hand we have games education which entails actions physical development competitive and physios and loyalty development and the team spirit but on the night to hand is there anything or any education in things themselves. There is no poetic experience. Internet has trained almost entirely by books and the weather is trained almost entirely by games but the reality is that we live in a world of things many things. Making things is a large part of a man’s life any man’s life and certainly The maturity of men are operatives of one kind or another and yet there is no education in things no education in the poetic experience itself. We grab an idea of the concept and obstruction a representation and we train now intellects regret balls and pads and one another’s and calls as the train our wills but the gratify things no such thing is this or that for itself know being only thoughts about being is only actions in relations to things and those beans. The poet is a grasper of Things. Art artistry is all a matter of poetry which is grasping reality and grasping things. Hence its importance.
I might as well confess at this point that I dearly grow more suspicious of what I can only call exhibitionist culture. Exhibitions of painting and sculpture of French tapestries or Australian totem poles. Concert of classical music of modern music of Chinese music opera is from Vienna or ballet from Russia yes they are all very entertaining little exhausting if we care to keep up with exhilarating pace of it all and no doubt it does increase the curious collection of old impressions or disconnected facts and half remembered names which we keep in some corner of a cerebellum and call knowledge and which we dig up from this cloudy and overcrowded receptacle when do you want to display our culture.
Discipline is I suppose a minute sorry word. Yes. Stop in a field us with images of Keynes and Castor oil please Sergeants and Sergeant Majors all the Dreary ritual of the Barrett square and the parade ground. How rarely do we remember that the word is derived from the same route as disciple a gentle word full of reverence and devotion. The proper meaning of disciple sorry of discipline is indeed discipline ship. When we get back to the original letting meaning of the word we find that it is a denticle the meaning of our word teaching; a word which implies pointing out showing the relationship of nasty to people discipline is involved in that relationship but I hope to show how different such discipline is from the discipline of the Barrack Square.
Even perfection will not be at the tedium of indefinite repetition. To sustain the seven location with the intensity of its first order requires more than learning. Adventure is essential name lead to search for new perfections.
The process of disintegration has not been uniform: there has been scientific adventure but no corresponding moral adventure.
Throw open the holes visible world to the Childs arousal as many desires as you like but don’t let him be overwhelmed by them. Teaching to discriminate all the best and the entire host of sensations which are aroused in him. Make him realise that he has within him and in measurable store of willpower which he can release when where and how necessity dictates
We must keep you said our seriousness serious things persists say our relationship to God and for the rest all of us should fall in with our role and spend life in making our play as perfect as possible. Man and his best is God‘s plaything the best way of conducting our lives is to play so as to please God. You should pass our lives Plato concluded in the playing of games certain games that is sacrifice song and dance in order to gain heavens grace.
Like Plato nature propose that we should look to nature which teaches us to hate the laissez Aller the two great freedom and implants the need for limited horizons for immediate duties which teaches the narrowing of perspectives. … And nature then points to the precise practice of art with a free ranging locating disposing and constructing in moments of inspiration or a chiefed only by the artists obedience to 1000 laws which by their very rigidness and precision defy all formulation by means of ideas.
We cannot avoid what is one of central problems of our civilisation and perhaps the prime source of its cultural weakness: the alienation of at least half the community from any practical skills from concrete formative activities of any kind
And that is why the vitality of civilisation always depends on the free functioning of the aesthetic process. That is why civilisation without arts parishes and wire technological civilisation will perish unless it can provide an outlet all rather an Internet for the shaping spiritOf the imagination.
The aim is not storing the passive mind with the various sorts of knowledge most and request as if the human soul were in a repository or banqueting room but to place it in such relations of circumstance a shit gradually excite it’s vegetating and germinating powers to produce new fruits of thought you conceptions and imaginations and ideas.
But as technology advances we are compelled to admit whether we belong to catalyst or to Communist society is that instead of transformation into a harmonious society we tend inevitably towards social disarmingly or schizophrenia to which the name alienation has been given. Alienation or self estrangement is a direct consequence of the division of labour and according to Marx begins to make its appearance in the historyOf society soon as there is separation between self activity and activity for the common interest. As long as a cleavage exists between the particular and a common interest marks argues man’s own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him which in sleeves him instead of being controlled by him.
To
‘ of society soon as there is separation between self activity and activity for the common interest. As long as the cleavage exists between the particular and the common interest marks argues man’s own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him which in slaved him instead of being controlled by him.
The governments of the states parties to this constitution on behalf of the People’s declare: since wars begin in the mines and then it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be construct it agents of each other’s ways and lives has been a common cause throughout the history of mankind of that suspicion and distrust between the peoples of the world through which the differences all too often broken into war.
If every inhabitants of the globe could be taught to read and write and if an organisation could provide them with what the cord objective textbooks of history and the problem of the solidarity of mankind would seem to the scientific humanist to be largely soft.c
There are millions of good respect of the seventh in Germany and week now clearly see that they in activity was perhaps the greatest crime of all settling the decisive factor in the fateful situation we are all implicated in the decadence of our civilisation and it is only to the extent that our dull and difference is fused to a white heat of moral indignation and consequent moral activity that the future can have any promise of greatness.
What men do makes what they are how they do what they do determine the quality of what they are
English jurists like Jeremy Bentham John Austin Sir Henry main who first began to discuss the international aspects of law 100 years ago. The term International was apparently invented by Jeremy Bentham to describe what he called that branch of jurisprudence dealing with mutual transactions between some friends as such. The obvious name should be universalism. Internationalism is illegal or political concept universalism is a philosophical concept.
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