Blueprints of the Mind

Описание: Education systems play a particularly crucial role in either promoting or preventing cognitive flexibility because they shape thinking patterns during the most formative years of human development. The design of educational systems - their goals, methods, and measures of success - largely determines whether emerging generations develop flexible or fixed thinking patterns.

Lyrics: Patric Rozario

[Verse 1]
Tiny desks
Plastic chairs
Crayons in a crooked line
First time someone asks you
“What’s the right answer?”

Red pen
Ticking clocks
Stories locked in multiple choice
Raise your hand
Guess the box
Silence your own voice

[Chorus]
We’re drawing blueprints of the mind
Brick by brick
In straight or shifting lines
Do we teach them how to color past the border
Or only how to stay inside the order?
Every little rule
Every grade we sign
Builds the blueprints of the mind

[Verse 2]
Posters on the cinder walls
“Success” in silver
Bold and bright
But all the stars look the same
Pinned in perfect rows at night

Gold seals
Sorted tracks
“You’re the math kid
You’re the art”
Name the lanes
Close the gaps
Or carve the labels in their hearts

[Chorus]
We’re drawing blueprints of the mind
Brick by brick
In straight or shifting lines
Do we teach them how to color past the border
Or only how to stay inside the order?
Every little rule
Every grade we sign
Builds the blueprints of the mind

[Bridge]
What if a test was a question
Not a verdict from on high? (mm)
What if the goal was the wondering
Not the “A” they have to buy? (oh)
Teach them how to bend the frame
Let them change the game’s design
So the future doesn’t echo
Just one narrow
Borrowed line

[Chorus]
We’re drawing blueprints of the mind
Brick by brick
In straight or shifting lines
We can teach them how to color past the border