This blog is created to support conversation generated from and about the learning process for MA Professional Practice (MAPP) in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries (ACI) at Middlesex University.

Thursday, 29 November 2012

A few thoughts as we move forward


I have been writing about the MAPP course and the following stands out as something I think is very important. It is adapted from a saying a friend from college told me. Then as now it seemed full of wisdom although at the time I could articulate why but below I attempt to.

Questions are not directly related to answers:

Frogs in a bucket
Two frogs fell in a bucket of milk. One couldn't see a solution for how to get out and slowly sank to the bottom. The other one swam round and round contemplating how to solve the problem of hopping out of the milk. By the morning that frog's swimming round and round had churned the milk into butter and he was able to hop out of the bucket.

What is significant is that there was no answer to the question how to hop out of the milk but the activity of contemplating the question became the activity of change that moved the frog on. This is because sometimes a question manifests a paradigm shift not a direct answer. 

Also have a look at my BAPP post for this week:

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