Jean Dubuffet was an art theoretician, a dedicated worker of creative attitudes and a trusting observer of a multitude of individuals: the sick, the mad, simple people without culture, workers and farmers. Below expresses a disagreement -in his opinion- enormous, how much creative spirit are the teachers capable of granting the students? And because of what incapacity the process is interrupted?
“The teachers are perpetual schoolchildren, schoolchildren who, once their school stage is over, leave the school through one door to enter through the other, like the soldiers who are re-enlisting. They are schoolchildren who, instead of aspiring to an adult activity, that is, creative, have clung to the condition of students, that is, passively receptive, as if they were sponges. The creative spirit is as opposed as possible to the condition of a teacher. There is more kinship between artistic (or literary) creation and all other forms of creation (in the most common fields, trade, crafts or any manual work or not) than between creation and the purely normalizing attitude of the teacher , which by definition is not animated by any creative taste and must indiscriminately give its approval to everything that, during the long development of the past, has prevailed. The teacher is the cataloger, the homogenizer, the confirmer of what predominates, where and at the moment in which that which predominates has taken place.
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