It has everything to do with interest and inquiry.
When my sons learn things, it has nothing to do with disciplines or subjects. Teachers are stuck with a structure that is fundamentally unnatural to the way people learn. Kleon: I don’t think the way we do school is remotely the way how people actually learn on their own. I graduated in 2005, so the great teachers of almost one-third to half of my adult life have been pretty much mentors from afar or dead people.Īs a parent of a newly school-aged child, Kleon has strong opinions about what he expects from formal schooling. I cobbled together a major out of writing, English, art and classics.Īnd since then I haven’t had any formal schooling. You could put your own major together and it was a living, learning community-a wonderful place to go to school. There was something called the Western College program, and it was the school of Interdisciplinary Studies. I went to college for writing, at Miami University in Ohio. If you are like me and you want those two things in your life, you figure out a way to unite them again. Then you go to school and they get split apart into subjects. When you start out as a kid, pictures and words go together. I had a good art teacher and a good English teacher, and those two things, English and art, are part of my journey. Austin Kleon (Photo credit: Clayon Cubitt)Īustin Kleon: Middle school was formative for me. Here’s a quick sketch of Kleon’s schooling. The following remarks are lightly edited for clarity. Knowing one’s history in order to create something new, sharing one’s work in stages (even if it’s not perfect), finding ways to persist and make meaning each day-these are all ongoing concerns for teachers and learners, for schools and families, for teams and individuals. These books won’t fit neatly into a traditional classroom, but they speak to a mindset that all teachers can relate to and apply. His works-“Steal Like an Artist,” “Show Your Work” and “Keep Going”-serve as a trilogy on creativity that is both timeless and overtly modern.
It’s an approach that is intuitively connected to the evolving priorities of conscientious educators and schools around the world. And his work draws from his experiences in school, weaving across the realms of interdisciplinary thinking, social-emotional learning, self care, and the steady search for creativity on a human scale. Austin Kleon is a New York Times bestselling writer who draws.
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