This was a very interesting reading to me for a number of different reasons. For starters, one of the points that were made in the reading was about the relationship between a student and their teacher. When it comes to learning and doing work, nothing will get done if both parties are not willing to cooperate. While the student’s success is somewhat dependent on their natural talent, a huge part of it is also that the student must want to learn and succeed. On the other side, the teacher must be willing to teach and teach in such a way that is able to hold their student’s attention as well as be engaging. If these two parties butt heads and are not willing to work with each other and do their jobs, then talent and success will be suppressed. Another very interesting part of this reading for me was the idea surrounding limitations. Even the weirdest, and least unexpected shapes and images can be turned into something but when there are limitations on the work that can be done everything changes. Creativity is often limited and prevented because of limitations that are in play. While limitations may be necessary to create a sense of direction on the project, too many limitations make the art restricted. This is true in just regular daily life as well. We are told to live our lives to the fullest but then parents and other limiting factors come into play and day by day we often just watch our life pass on by. Overall this reading was really engaging and touched upon points I may not have previously thought about.
(Also I just want to point out that this quote about crossword puzzles was so interesting for me to think about: “There have been many reasons given for the popularity of the game. One is that it fulfills the human urge to solve the unknown, another that it is orderly, a third that it represents, according to the puzzle editor of the New York Times, ‘a mental stimulation… and exercise in spelling and vocabulary-building.'”)
