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The magic of the adventurous type

Every Christmas and Easter gift I usually do myself to start the year well oiled intellectually, buy a book from Jose Antonio Marina, so I have in my library many titles theirs.

Once, during a conference, I heard that Jose Antonio Marina, just lacked one thing to be an influential philosopher in the world: being born in the United States. But as it happens, that Marina was born in Toledo, as a server, I fear that his literary personality is not too well known outside our latitudes, which is a shame because their books easily worked with a difficult, are the clearest , entertaining and even, rigorous we can find in Spain, culturally dominated by the scourge of a public and private broadcasters are affront to the intelligence and good taste.

understand, if so, to Marina, with good sense, given this grim outlook, prefer to focus more on the education of new generations, who attend the elementary and secondary classrooms (or they are called now, these levels of education) than to adults seduced by the screaming, howling and other signs of "intelligence" lavish characters and so are people that regularly attend our galaxies media (and which cause serious damage to neurons, if I allow relief).

This approach to young people, parents and teachers is the one with the last book Marine-acquired off-season, failing this time with the annual provision, entitled "The magic of writing ", co-authored with Mary I avail myself of their habitual collaborator. I think a work that, even if, as is pointed out, a clear concern to teaching, it is interesting for all kinds of readers, as most of the works of Marina that can be read profitably by both the specialist and the citizen. Resumo

what I consider essential in the book, interspersed with comments or personal reflection.

passive intelligence and Intelligence are active, co-authors write. Passivity, the fact watch TV at all hours, for example, is not good. Passivity limits our ability to act, we are weak and subject to several easements, moldy our capabilities and convenience often intoxicated. Human intelligence can be a source of occurrence, or may be a sad mockery, as these false sources recycled over and over again the same water in a closed circuit. Passivity is a failure of intelligence that should be active and creative.

Where does occurrences are the result of our creative intelligence?. From the depths of our privacy, where there was speech, expression, co-authors respond. Think it is expressed. "Talk and educate our personality eloquent expression involves education of the whole personality . "Hence the importance of educating the expression and practice.

The most common form and full of practicing oral expression through conversation, inmprescindible for coexistence. Talking is not dialogue to reach an agreement or investigate a case, there is debate to reach the truth, let alone play, something all by himself in the trash TV programs, a true threshold of hell. "Conversation is an exchange feelings, information, thoughts interralación where the staff is more important than the logical thread.
Express well, think well, write well, create, are habits, " the same as playing good tennis ," say the sponsors. It takes a minimum of authority, a determined attitude and sufficient training.

write co-authors of creative intelligence, learn how to use language well is to teach or to use intelligence-can be represented by the following equation Psychological

I witty = red Memory + OS + activity + eagerness + escape from the routine evaluation.

explain this a little. Our self witty is the union of our creative memory and our habits operative. I think, as the sponsors, which is a shame that schools have been deleted in the habit of learning texts by heart. I belong to a generation that was educated in a school where the memory was the main source of learning, then I have no memory left to grow throughout life and I regret that over the years is losing the nearest memory (the distant is that longer stays).

mental operations to express themselves well are varied: link, merge, inserting variables extrapolate, invent models, ask questions. Each of these operations can be automated, become a habit. This requires addition, an effort, an activity. " important thing, as I said Threshold that this effort will not notice ."

creative intelligence still requires another element: the systematic routine flight. When this combination of items flowing spontaneously creative intelligence. But still need something more. Select all occurrences of the good. Build our own system of selection, which is, as the trial of the artists, a slow and mysterious.

Modern life requires a complete mastery of writing. From learning any office until their tax obligations or participate in the civic life of the community, any fact required to complete forms, send requests, translate the written opinion or a report. This we know well who have spent a career in public administration where we have tried to act with "Love and Pedagogy" at the service of citizens, as claimed by the institution and improve the style of the administrative language. Foster

expressiveness of children in primary school is one of their goals. But writing is not easy. Involves, among other things, manual dexterity, concentration, clarity of ideas, will and perseverance, and a time and a place. Fundamental results the work of the teacher " an adult who is with the children to give the best of himself, to develop the well, the habit of creation, and commitment imagimnación ." The authors, based on their teaching experience, are convinced that children and young people like to write, comment upon and many useful suggestions for teaching primary and secondary education (for example, writing workshops in high school).

able to speak, knowing that, knowing how to write, are basic skills, but to cultivate these capacities, writes Adela Cortina, "training is essential that comes from regular and attentive reading of good books, a school is convinced that it is a disservice to students when they are not caring for the language, namely to understand, explain, draft, because more free to communicate what think those who run the fluent speech " 1.

I think it's a shame that these messages" provocateurs "have no more echo. They are simple mosquito bites in a shell of steel. We live in hard times for ethics (immorality) and aesthetics (bad taste). While the politicians, the holders of the media, professionals give away their responsibilities, that is each in its sphere and its own scope, not on almost anything. Given a task that offends morality, intelligence, education and good taste can not be said " that if I do not, somebody else will," or resort to subterfuge that " that's what the audience asks "as I heard him say on TV recently called a journalist, an actress stalker dying. If there's a heartless willing, at least that you're not. "

Writing is also a profession or a way of life. There's a writer's craft, a profession that has over others, significant advantages starting with the not inconsiderable to be every man his own boss and to organize their time please. It is a somewhat traditional trade, as only learn by practicing. Each writer has his reasons for writing and this is reflected in surveys often are made between writers. The truth is that once you start typing, whatever the reasons that everyone has the passion for creating never ends. " The writers do not retire, because your joy is to keep writing until the end of his days ." Could also apply this recipe we, the writers of blogs.

childhood memory, his constant reference operator is part of the real or imaginary world evoked by the writer. Rilke wrote "I ven if you were in a prison, whose walls drown every sound in the world, is not always pra poseeriais childhood, that precious, that real wealth, the treasure of memories ." The world of childhood is a world of feelings, a sensory world, colorful and unique self. " Everything I've written comes straight from my childhood " he writes in his diary Jules Green. I can add that in any other age in childhood and feels most keenly the injustice, real or apparent, suffered by the child, in both senses of mistreatment and abuse of power.

The man writes to a trace of what is inside. True, it may leave a mark in other ways-in the children, a gift, a foundation, as did the Indians, but the writing is the most primitive of preservarlamemoria. "Write ," Threshold-new appointment, is a self-affirmation . "

Only the creative process frees us from the inertia, routine, disillusionment and boredom. I endorse these recommendations of Jose Antonio Marina and María de la avail myself to practice and also invites readers of this blog. Read, understand, write us to stay alive and lucid in a world ever more complicated, where all we are, more or less time, some survivors.

© Manuel Martínez Bargueño
April, 2011

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NOTES

1 Adela Cortina. "Knowing that ." The Country April 1, 2011