Tina Brescanu's Blog - Posts Tagged "visionary"
Were You Sent(enced) to School?
When Tina was 7 she ran home the first day of school as she was told to start competing against her classmates, for life.
When Swedish, Irish based author Tina Brescanu was 7 she ran home the first day of school as she was told to start competing against her classmates, for life. No nurturing of the human spirit just plain competition.
So the question to ask ourselves may be, 'Is school an anti-child institution, a control centre where forced teaching and competition is part of keeping students docile, passive and non-questioning?'
For many sensitive children like Tina this was the beginning of a very long roller coaster ride.
She used laughter as a life-saving mechanism and always investigated what she had been told was a fact.
Two teachers ventured further than the education plan; her Swedish teacher and her English teacher.
They nurtured her passion for storytelling, for words, for language and despite leaving school early, going on to learn more from life, she still gives thanks to these two extraordinary teachers.
Succumbing to the deep sleep of adulthood, she was awoken many years later by her two children. They reminded her of her love of writing. This was her first story; it’s a story for unconventional children and young people with deep hearts.
When Swedish, Irish based author Tina Brescanu was 7 she ran home the first day of school as she was told to start competing against her classmates, for life. No nurturing of the human spirit just plain competition.
So the question to ask ourselves may be, 'Is school an anti-child institution, a control centre where forced teaching and competition is part of keeping students docile, passive and non-questioning?'
For many sensitive children like Tina this was the beginning of a very long roller coaster ride.
She used laughter as a life-saving mechanism and always investigated what she had been told was a fact.
Two teachers ventured further than the education plan; her Swedish teacher and her English teacher.
They nurtured her passion for storytelling, for words, for language and despite leaving school early, going on to learn more from life, she still gives thanks to these two extraordinary teachers.
Succumbing to the deep sleep of adulthood, she was awoken many years later by her two children. They reminded her of her love of writing. This was her first story; it’s a story for unconventional children and young people with deep hearts.
I love dialogue the most about both reading and writing
I love dialogue. I can finish reading in the middle of a paragraph. I don’t always finish reading every book I start, it’s not that it’s bad, it’s just a connection thing, it doesn’t fit, but, of course, it could in the future. I like action, but of another kind, not violence at all, I can skip and skim, and I do. I like odd stuff, weird stuff, magical stuff and love, love, love, also sex, great sex and out of this world sex, I love when people talk about sex, in any book, not just erotica. I love spiritual books, fiction and fantasy, especially fantasy, it’s visionary and I love reading real life stories told in a different way, indies are unbeatable. I love children’s, teens and young adult books, the more rebellious the better. I don’t always write a review, but I should, it’s good practice. I don’t like faces on a cover. I don’t like too much details; I want stuff left to the imagination. I love some foreign words, but not if what is said doesn’t become clear in the next sentence.
