I just saw something about this story on the TV. I glanced at the article, and it got me thinking of my childhood. When my cousin wouldn't share his Legos with my sister, my mom got my sister her own set of building blocks. I got caught in the middle of it because I was allowed to play with the Legos. I was banned from playing with my sister's blocks, along with my cousin. It wasn't a plesant thing for the 3 of us. I doubt my sister and cousin even remember this event. However, I'm pretty sure that somewhere in life, it taught the 3 of us the hard cold facts of life. Life isn't fair.
While I think the dicussion about why they need to share the Legos is a good thing, I think banning the Legos at first was dumb. Instead of allowing Legotown to develop as large as it did, the teachers should have told the kids that structures could only stay together so long. With my Legos, my structures could only stay up as long as I was playing with them. When I finished, I tore the house down and place its pieces, along with the ones I didn't use, back into my offical Lego carrying case. It encouraged me to build more structures and using my block planning skills.
And in my field, Legos are still a major thing. The School of Computing use them to develop engineering projects and software. I just got upset I missed the last time they played with Legos! By banning the Legos, the teachers were stiffling creativity. Think of the number of engineering students and recent grads that got an interesting in their field based on hours of playing with Legos.
Posted by Shawn at March 28, 2007 10:08 AM in General.
