THE OUTSPOKER HOWARD JONES!
"I did pretty well in school," Howard Jones says, “because my parents really pushed me. Until I was about 14...then I just lost interest; I became a bit of a rebel school and I just didn’t see point.” The articulate Jones, a softspoken, even shy man, doesn’t seem to be your typical highschool rebel.
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THE OUTSPOKER HOWARD JONES!
"I did pretty well in school," Howard Jones says, “because my parents really pushed me. Until I was about 14...then I just lost interest; I became a bit of a rebel school and I just didn’t see point.”
The articulate Jones, a softspoken, even shy man, doesn’t seem to be your typical highschool rebel. But he does have opinions about many things, education. “There’s so ings available in our , and the people who are you have never done any . All they’ve ever done is from school to school and school,” he notes wryly, never actually lived or
experienced; they’ve never been able to think, ‘Well, why don’t you just set off down the road one
day and see what happens to you?’ That’s just as good as any career.”
Jones says his idea of the perfect school would be this: “For a start, you’d have kids with all kinds of abilities—blind kids, deaf kids or whatever. And you’d have small classes—and very broadminded teachers—who could deal with each person as an individual and bring out their very best.”
It’s obvious that Jones is largely a self-taught person. He began playing music when he was only seven years old, and says: “As time went by, I realized there are so many taboos that are spread by our educational system that actually limit people.” Which led to his own self-education and, we must presume, his novel theories on the educational process itself.
But—ever thoughtful—he adds this final observation: “I’ve taken a lot of knocks, but why should I take it out on the world? I don’t want to burden people with the chips on my shoulder. I mean, I want to offer something that is going to lift people up, not drag them down.”
