I had forgotten to add some clarifications after I had quickly
scribbled off the whole chunk yesterday. Pointers below in a zip:
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Andrew J King <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sent from my iPad :-)
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> On 8 Oct 2011, at 09:17, "Frankie Ng [ITC]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I agree with most of what Karen deliberated, but would like to expand the definition/form of (design) education to one that inspires and nourishes, notable in higher level/degree (design) education. Certainly, practice with vision suffice to produce influential figures like Jobs; I believe education helps too, if it is done innovatively/appropriately. Frankie
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I had missed out the part on education that I've almost sounded as
though education isn't important. It isn't. Agree with Frankie on the
innovativeness of teaching as being crucial. However, one would have
to question about the quality of some teachers in the first place in
terms of their own minds if they are able to be that receptive and
elastic to various cultures and concepts. Chances are its very hard to
find such people. Most tend to keep on to their own and refuse
'provocative challenges' since that was how they were brought up and
got 'successful'. We can't change very much on that, at least on the
direct front.Then again, the history and the nature of most human
minds is that we tend to keep very much to our own because that is the
most beneficial and the easiest way to go through. This inertia if
done with authority could stifle creativity. Fortunately, such
establishments do not stay healthy for very long and they will be
'auto-renewed'. Steve Jobs is a good example that a superior mind is
not taught by education. He had his own mind. And he did his own way.
Who would have thought that the brand ' Apple ' had any bond to
computers, and nevermind the bite of an apple could do wonders to our
way of living? In terms of graphical metaphor, it is irrelevant; but
he turned the world around. Thats revolution. Other great minds had no
direct education when they do something. Examples are many. In the
product and servies innovation front, Jobs is a great strategist at
work but ironically a thorough failure in designing his personal life
-- he neglected both his family and his health.
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> Are we maybe missing something here? Jobs was undoubtedly a creative manager, with vision. But what did that vision lead him to do? Hire educated designers of both software and hardware. In the case of hardware, first a range of outside consultants, and latterly of course, Jonathan Ive.
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> Andrew J King
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The Late Steve Jobs appear to hire people out from the usual. Most
hired under him tend to be from modest backgrounds with sound
education qualifications though not necessarily from the tip pf the
top schools. His vision of hiring is itself farsighted and different.
Everyone has fundamentally 1 education in a lifetime. Few lucky ones
may get 2 or more. We can't learn everything in one education, or even
in 2 or 3. But what I can say is a fine education (excluding degree
granting colleges) will set you the foundations for thinking. The rest
of the education after High School or Senior High School (Pre
University) will really be focused on skills and advanced knowledge in
specified fields. Apart from this, if one had not formed the right
matrix for thinking; the chances of exceptional thought will not be
possible. Nevermind expanding on what that has been assimilated
anyway.
In this aspect, college edication has little help. But what it could
do, I think, would be to allow individual students of learning to be
able to retain their own styles. And with that in mind, the culture of
teaching and curriculum has to change to fit the students creative
mind frame than to set a kind of rule of culture. The essence is the
knowledge learnt ---- whether one has been keeping up with learning.
It has little to do with the level of Degree certificates one has
obtained.
Hope I've made it clear. Perhaps not many are interested in my post.
Mine do look odd when it is compared to the usual post graduate
intellectual debate posts. But I always believe that learning takes no
specific form so as long as the fundamentals of learning with an open
mind & enthusiasm is concerned.
Innovativeness comes from a keep learning mind that knows no
boundaries. Education should always stay in that form and not in
affect of any kind of irrelevant influence.
Right I'm late again.
Cheers!
Karen Fu
PS: adapt to grow; confine to perish.
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