“If your goal is to get your kid into an Ivy League school, this is definitely the wrong place to be,” Goldman said. “But we hope the kids will be so well educated that they get into any place they want.”
I’d never have guessed that quote came from one of the founders of the Blue Man Group. But it did, because these three guys have started a nursery school heavily influenced by the Reggio Emilia educational approach that emphasizes kiddie creativity. But they’re also including Blue Man Group stuff:
During a trial run of the center for a group of two- and three-year-olds last year, Goldman and Wink experimented with incorporating actual bits of Blue Man Group business into the curriculum. They decided against teaching their pupils how to catch paintballs in their mouths (“Maybe in second grade,” Goldman said), but they did adapt their spin-art routine, which involves a Blue Man spitting paint onto a canvas rotated by his fellow Blue Men, as an exercise in cooperation. “By the end of the experience,” Wink said, “they got to a tribal place.”
OK, then.
Can’t wait for the Cirque du Soleil school. Might be fun, but gym class could be tough.
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