What Kind of Encouragement Did Edie Receive?
After the art teacher tells a 6-year-old, Edie, her painting wasn’t done right, Twitter had something to say about it.
“Edie that is one of the most beautiful pieces of art I gave ever seen,” said one Twitter user. I’m 43 and I cannot make anything close to that beautiful. You have true talent. God Bless you.”
“This is a brilliant piece of work, full of life and energy. It’s really beautiful and Edie should be very proud of it,” said another Twitter user.
One woman on Twitter pointed out how well the 6-year-old showed perspective, saying, “It shows a remarkably mature sense of perspective. Bravo, Edie!”
Another Twitter user pipped in on the same note saying, “I think it’s brilliant. Inate understanding of perspective, freedom of line, bold sense of colour. Sometimes teachers are wrong, unless it was a misunderstanding.”
Thinking toward the future, one user said she hoped to see more works of art from Edie, “This is a fantastic painting Edie! I look forward to seeing more of your drawings and paintings and sculptures – keep going!”
That is fabulous! Edie did a bit of van gogh too pic.twitter.com/DM1B9SPyvx
— Gemma Leighton (@GemLeighton) April 21, 2021
Twitter Users’ Painful Experiences With Teachers
After the art teacher tells a 6-year-old her painting is wrong, some Twitter users shared their own disappointments with this sort of experience.
“When I was in middle school my English teacher told me to stop writing rhyming poems because they were too juvenile,” Kimya Dawson said. “I never stopped though and making rhyming poems has been my career for over 20 years! Your painting is perfect! Keep it up! Don’t worry what anyone else thinks.”
And Joel Leon said, “I remember my senior year high school teacher telling us rap wasn’t poetry.”
The impact of teachers’ words on children goes farther than many realize. One Twitter user walled Will Black shared how his experience totally changed his view of adults based on a school experience.
Will Black said, “I lost faith in teachers and the adult world when I was six. We were defining a list of words on the board and one word was flog. I gave two connotations but the teacher absolutely insisted that flog NEVER means sell. This art is great!”
Hopefully Edie’s teacher will re-think her words, even if her intentions weren’t wrong now that she likely knows how they’ve impacted at least one student of hers.
