A BEAUTIFUL MIND, by Carlos Martínez García Tenorio Madrid, April 18 th, 2003

Dedicated to John Nash (Nobel Prize Winner and paranoid schizophrenic)

If we cling to what a school of Fine Arts should do about its future students who have to enter, the only dilemma I can think that can solve the problem is a metaphor. It is as follows: What was born first, the chicken or the egg? Ah ha ha… at first glance it seems like a problem. Life is full of internal conflicts and difficulties that we must extrapolate to other areas of our being. You have to let the river follow its natural course, until the mouth forms a delta. Regarding the previous question, we have to go back to Darwinian theories that speak of the natural selection of species, which involves an evolution, a process.

I think the most interesting thing would be to take an aptitude test that, at first glance, seems subtle and naive. Darwin said: "Nature selects those who adapt to the environment and can survive and transmit their PECULIARITIES to their descendants." Therefore the hen comes first.

I suppose I have reached an elegant resolution.

Ray, I hope you know how to choose well. Let the designers make two common courses and then have the students become specialized. They will know how to come up with a creative solution.

The truth is in the wind as Bob Dylan said and only they through a collective learning process will know how to appreciate and care for the egg, the germ of chaos in their lives.

For the sake of E.S.D.I., all students should have the same knowledge in common subjects that are attractive to them. Because, on the contrary, if everyone looks at what interests them beforehand, the other artistic issues will be disconnected, despair will come, then they will simply end the degree with deficiencies.

If the school wins over beautiful minds and the students are impregnated with different knowledge, everyone will win.

The teaching staff for two years must seek among the students the creative individuality among the community, marking an almost familiar dialogue with the teacher to be able to explore it in all its spiritual, artistic, and intellectual faculties. There must be a reciprocal feeling, a harmony between the disciple and his mentor. This academic passivity that currently exists is only a setback. You should talk about current issues or ones that concern the "kid", never punish him, and have a lot of patience and tolerance. They should always set limits that do not correspond to me to define them.

The Bauhaus School or the Black Mountain College have been a milestone in the history of progressive education, but utopia can be reached or at least approximated.