Preach, Teach, Practice Creatively

    Preach, Teach, Practice
             Creatively                  
 
If not creativity (a difference that makes
a difference:  between adverb and noun.)
 
Catholics don't like the word “creativity,”
I understand from a colleague who told
me this during the last quarter of the last
century: gives me the gee-willies, he said,
with a  shiver & I took  him at his word..
 
          Only the Creator creates.
 
         Critical thinking sample;:
 
              “Carrie was cold
                and smart and
                meticulous. She
                crawled inside
                your story with
                a flashlight and
                blew out all your
                     candles.”
 
 
“The Good” for Carrie is that which is
“executed as vigorously as it's  conceived.
It isn't false or  pretentious. It doesn't  jerk
the reader around to no effect.  It lives by
 it's own logic. It's poignant without trying
 too hard,”*
.
   Creative description of Assessment &
       Evaluation. Rubric possibilities?
 
Don't be false or pretentious.
Don't jerk the reader around to no effect.
Let your writing  live by its own logic.
Be poignant but don't try to hard.
Go and do like wise.
 
A student recently explained to me  how
she reads Faulkner. Open in the middle
and read both ways, she said.  In  medias
res over and over again. Faulkner hisself
eschews sequence if not consequence.
so there.
 
An English Major, too. Remarkable.
Usually it's an environmentalist
who surprises me creatively.
 
(*Writes Kevin Moffett;  me sampling one of his
creations: “Further Interpretations of True Life
Events”..)
                          
              FREE STORE.
 
        School's a Free Store now.
 
All the content you want, subject-matter
galore  & free for all, descriptions, theories
& explanations because & affects, commentary
& interpretation, videos, college lectures,
curricula, courses  noetic inventory of the
world: at hand.
 
Like stacks of old National Geographic magazines
piled up in the closet in 6^th grade &  anyone can
go in during recess or study hall to  cut up pictures
and articles  for your posters and presentations.
 
Like that,  but now the whole wide world :
use-able, abuse-able,  reusable for free.
 
Maybe we could talk about shifting emphasis
from product to process & performance? Not
how much we know--that's a free store now—
but whether  we can put it in play?
 
Maybe we could argue. Sustainably.
 
Anticipate  the Law of Disruption occurring to
institutions &  industries when new &  innovative
technologies converge with the rigor of established
procedures &  their seemingly sustainable habits
and habitats of the humanities.  

KODAK.
 
It's necessarily demoralizing
but not necessarily Demoralizing, true?