We live in a world where we consider illiterate people to be missing something, and rightly so given the array of possibilities we have developed via the vehicle of reading and writing. Whether by pen and paper or digitally the words we read and write provide us with an infinity of knowledge authority and power. Often even without realising it! Indeed often without using neither!
This video however challenges all of us, myself as the author and you all reading (it means you can read unless someone is reading it out to you!).
How much time do we give to choosing our words? Do we ever notice how blind we can be....think of the beautiful days you experienced in a rush....how much more than the blind man in the video did you enjoy such days!?
Think of the many times we where happy to write...say...shout some words without asking ourselves....do they put our real message through?
Literate people have a challenge to learn to unfold the power of the same words we use when put forward thoughtfully.
And perhaps when, sharing our knowledge to encourage literacy skills, we should be humble not to rush in our enthusiasm to teach but spend some minutes learning the humble art of reflective silence as a great introduction to any string of words that will follow. I, for one, need to try....
With apologies to the end of the video...i tend to think we should all let ourselves feel like this blind men with a piece of card next to us claiming "im a great speaker/writer/teacher but often i cannot see it"
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