Thursday, March 15, 2012

How To: Criticize Professionals

        George Ouzounian, or Maddox, his online pen name, is the creator of the website iambetterthanyourkids.com, where people submit their children's art to him and he posts their work on his website along with a grade and a comment. Here are a couple of my favorite entries:


On his website, the blurb about himself reads:
"I was standing around in a co-worker's cubicle at my old job one day, and noticed that she had poorly drawn pictures hanging in her cubicle. So I told her they sucked. She took offense and brought to my attention that it was drawn by her 4-year-old nephew. It changed nothing. In fact, it only strengthened my resolve to grade children's artwork, because I don't think kids should get a free pass for being kids. Coddling children ruins them. Mozart wasn't coddled, and look at him: dead and famous. Most people will only ever accomplish being dead in life. Mozart accomplished two things."
 Do you agree or disagree with his justification and rational for grading children's drawings?

(If you like these, check out his YouTube channel.)


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