Museum

I gave a tour of the museum Popol Vuj. I dont have much to say, so I will just copy he letter I read at debriefing.

Dear MPC-ers:

What are the standards we want to model? Do each of you want to be free and responsible? Are you really being honest with yourself and with others? Do you really value and understand what we are doing here? Do you remember in the traditional classes when no one or only a few listened to your presentation…? Everyone just paid attention to the teacher, and not even always to the teacher. Are we still waiting for an authority to tell us what to do?

 Today during the visit at the museum Isa, Mabe and I noticed our real standards, rubrics and culture. We simply don’t practice what we preach. Today while I was giving the tour only five people were really paying attention, the rest didn’t seem to care or appreciate the knowledge I was sharing with them. It was like if they were waiting for someone to put them in their place. I was supposed to be a facilitator and once I called for MPC rubrics, which the majority ignored.  Even Ingrid wasn’t really present. In the middle of the tour I got really frustrated and somebody told me that it was because I was giving a lecture. Number one, I told you could interrupt… it wasn’t a lecture, you could have asked questions and made comments. Number two, it was a tour and that’s why tour-guides exist. If not, you could have gone by yourself to the museum and not wasted my time. And number three, we are learners who adapt to ANY resource available of learning: even lectures. It made me feel really bad because I thought that this would be the best tour group ever, I had high expectations because of our rubrics, because of who we are, because we are learners and we ask questions. And it turns that it was this was the worst tour ever, even 9 year old children are more respectful that you guys, we should follow their example.

On the other hand, today in the group of choir we noticed that everyone was really engaged and organized. It was a big challenge and we know we have a lot to do, but you all were really excited and passionate to make this true. Why can’t we apply this values that we showed today in other stuff as well, like the museum? I mentioned today that there are ways to failure, and how we acted today shows the gap that could lead us to failure. How I saw it today, the MPC is more prone to fail than to succeed unless we get our act together. If we want to be independent learners we must be authentic in every single place and situation, we don’t need anyone to tell us. And guys we already practice these standards and values here, they are great, why can’t we practice them everywhere else?

            Sincerely, Isa, Mabe and Katarina.