When I arrived
to my guru’s house to tell her about my minute of fame front of the cameras, I
found her occupied with her jars full of seeds and several photographs, it
seemed that she was trying to recognize plants, but when I stood front her,
still without looking at me, she told me I looked good in the camera and she
sees with pleasure that there was a
slight awareness on the subject of evaluations.
I know
that I wanted to tell her about my experience and I heard exactly what it
wanted, but I was intrigued with all the attention that she was putting on
those seeds, and then her photographs. Over time I have learned that she has
the ability to divide her attention, so although it seems that she is not
paying attention to you, she understand very clear what I say, I hear, even
when it looks like she has eyes and ears in something else.
What are
you looking at?, Finally I asked her,
are you planning to do genetic crosses?
She replied me with a smile, and by
very first time in the last 15 minutes she puts her eyes on me.
- No, nothing like that!, I'm looking at something
intriguing. If I tell you that winter has been more raw this time, what would
you expect about the growth of plants?
I thought her
question carefully, although I knew what was coming would be a great learning.
I think I
would say that there will be a delay in the outbreak of the plants during the
spring.
-Yes, I
thought the same, but if I look at my pictures of previous years, the plants re-born
in the same order and I can say that under the same date of the calendar every year. The last two winters were very benign.
Last year, specialists assumed that some plants do not reach to sprout, because
the heat arrived too soon, however they sprang
up without problems, but this year, although winter has been brutal, all of
them follow the same pattern of growth.
It means
that the temperature is not important?
-
That seems, at least so far, but no doubt many more
observations are needed. My plants always come with a couple of weeks of delay compared
to others of the same species that are
located where they can receive better the Sun. So the Sun is a factor, but not
the temperature in terms of fluctuations.
They are
like children, follow a pattern of development unless the environment is not
the most suitable.
-Exact, I could
not do better analogy!
I guess
that’s why children who seems to have a learning problem, if there are some adjustments
in the environment are capable to attain their objectives.
-Yes,
environment adjustment!
Yes, that
what I have observed. Do you remember Ann? She is the little girl you helped me because she
couldn’t speak well?
-How could
I forget about her?, I hope that you have fun a lot of fun learning new vocal
movements!
Actually
we did!, all of us have had so much fun helping her to recognize the movements
of her lips and listening to us when we began to speak slowly.
Well, she
comes to my mind because she couldn't talk, and we assumed that she was going
to fail trying to learn, but it seems environment
works with children like with your plants, when we gave them the opportunity,
she showed her talent, and the atmosphere was important to achieving this
progress because we leave hoping that
she speaks as anybody else and started to realize all of importance of making
the correct movements with her lips. Her environment became friendly and she
gave herself the opportunity to try.
-Like
plants, when they have the correct variables, began to bloom!
Yes, so I
see it... I think what you are trying to teach me today is that the environment
is important, even if it appears we bloom later than others, the environment is
important.
-Yes!,
although I had no intention to give you a
lesson today... I have still so much to learn of my plants and environment, but
without a doubt, I believe that we can reach that conclusion, at least for now.
If parents
can change the environment in which evaluations are conducted, perhaps we can
get an improvement in children's learning, because the tests cause great stress,
even just to mention the word “test” causes panic to all of us.
-I hope
that one day, you and I are able to see that in education, but I think that is
still very far away.
When I walked
toward my house, I looked carefully all the plants blooming, earlier the flowers
emerge, makes shines everything and I felt amazed about the relationship we
have with the rest of the nature.