Burnt State
Paranormal Adept
So as someone who makes their living as an educator inside a bureaucratized institutional setting based on a hundred year old, mostly meat-grinder-kill-the-imagination approach to learning I feel compelled to respond on those points. What I've learned from working with youth is that they do need a guide, a moral responder and a coach that can inspire and motivate. It's true, there aren't a lot of educators into breeding imagination, chaos, critical thinking and curiosity, but there are some.
Recently, while applying for funding to reinvent literacy in schools in light of the digital revolution, I got to interview the head of science who teaches with blog and wiki spaces like me. I discovered the dude was a genius who had completely reinvented the teaching of science by getting kids to understand observable reality from the big bang onwards. His approach was interdisciplinary moving seamlessly in and out of physics, math, chemistry and with some biology. That guy is going to breed a whole new generation of inquisitive, competent, curious scientific youth. So all is not lost as a revolution in education will be forced upon the institutions of learning as technology, employment and youth demand it. And there are already teachers riding that wave - looking to reinvent, looking for more creative, moral responses to our times inside the classroom setting of the 21st century.
Still, our discussion around the orgasm of life, and the fullness of what it means to be wholly human in all the diversity of our potential and being eludes most educational spaces. We are still restricted by one way transmission approaches and mainstream ideologies that deny the lived realities of diverse youth. But even this I see changing as issues of social media, sexual violence and teens intersect and demand the attention and response from the adult world.
Recently, while applying for funding to reinvent literacy in schools in light of the digital revolution, I got to interview the head of science who teaches with blog and wiki spaces like me. I discovered the dude was a genius who had completely reinvented the teaching of science by getting kids to understand observable reality from the big bang onwards. His approach was interdisciplinary moving seamlessly in and out of physics, math, chemistry and with some biology. That guy is going to breed a whole new generation of inquisitive, competent, curious scientific youth. So all is not lost as a revolution in education will be forced upon the institutions of learning as technology, employment and youth demand it. And there are already teachers riding that wave - looking to reinvent, looking for more creative, moral responses to our times inside the classroom setting of the 21st century.
Still, our discussion around the orgasm of life, and the fullness of what it means to be wholly human in all the diversity of our potential and being eludes most educational spaces. We are still restricted by one way transmission approaches and mainstream ideologies that deny the lived realities of diverse youth. But even this I see changing as issues of social media, sexual violence and teens intersect and demand the attention and response from the adult world.
A line from one of his "songs" (rainy day women ?) that "everybody must get stoned" used to strike me as just another drug culture knock off. But Dylan is deeper than that. I think one could say that, regardless of how tightly we may cling to the straight and rational in life, the feeling and unthinking side of the human condition will at times overtake us. 
However, much like yourself, Jimi Hendrix, and nearly every other talented creative mind that has come to have had the misfortune of listening to Dylan, rather than reading the man, the person is beyond brilliant! I think that Bob was so talented that whereas he is undeniably recognized as a tremendous force in contemporary rock music, I sometimes wonder if the man himself may have struggled with his "true place" in terms of his megalithic literary expressive orientation. Certainly both an intellectually mainstream, and underground, sociological commentary non sequitur force to be reckoned with, albeit, other than his material with The Band, I won't listen to him if given a choice. Hands down my favorite lyric by Dylan is, I'm thinking from a tune he did back in the 60s called Subterranean Homesick Blues. The lyric to the best of my memory is "he who isn't busy being born is busy dying.". Dylan, the sociological cynical champion of all that is undercurrent to the prowess of his pen.
What was that now you stated about everybody must get, uh, get, ....stoned?