Some thoughts

[HV Psychodrama]

There is an interesting article in the NYTimes about how chronic stress creates what is essentially a total lack of spontaneity. It is interesting to translate the current finding on the way the brain works into Morenospeak...

"Reporting earlier this summer in the journal Science, Nuno Sousa of the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute at the University of Minho in Portugal and his colleagues described experiments in which chronically stressed rats lost their elastic rat cunning and instead fell back on familiar routines and rote responses, like compulsively pressing a bar for food pellets they had no intention of eating."

Wasn't this what Moreno was talking about in who shall survive...how people will become robots and lose their ability to respond with spontaneity? 

In addition, with No Child Left Behind, schools are focusing on student's ability to regurgitate facts and pre digested opinions rather than develop  spontaneity and higher level thinking. Many educators are writing in opposition to NCLB, and some of their reasoning can also be understood through the Cannon of Creativity.


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