After visiting the nunnery, once again I'm inspired by the simplicity and tranquility of Buddhism. I really would love to study it more and incorporate some of its ideas into my own spiritual studies. I can't get over the courtyard with the lotus ponds. I'd love to see it in the summer! Ah!
What was really interesting to me and is making me think of changing my paper topic is the music education lecture we went to. All along I've had this attitude that music education (and education in general) in America is terrible and that we should learn from some other countries. A large part of my philosophy of music ed has always revolved around multiculturalism and using music to understand other cultures. It was mind-boggling to me to learn that the schools in Hong Kong are going through the same exact problems we are! For one, I would have thought that they had the opposite problem as the U.S. - that they focus too much on traditional Chinese music and not enough on other cultures, including Western music. But, alas, they have the opposite issue. I wonder if that's a problem in all eastern countries, or if it's a result of British colonization and its western influence. It also makes me see that the issues in education are a much bigger (and more global) problem than I originally thought, and only makes me more certain that I want to get into anything I can for the betterment of education.
Tamara
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