Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Ken Robinson - Creativity in schools


Children are creative
creativity is held back by being wrong
we grow out of creativity
all school have same heichrchy of classes: Math, English, Science
purpose of edication to produce university proffessors
over population, degrees arnt worth anything
intellegence is dynamic, brain is interactive which produces creativity
rethink the capabillity of the mind
see our creativity for the ho
pe that it is.
educated out of being creative.
Fear of being wrong holds back creativity.

Ken Robinson spoke a TED conference this year, and titled his talk 'creativity in schools'.
Ken spoke about education and how we should rethink the system. He explained that the way education is set up, the highest acheivement would be to become a professor. This makes no room for the arts like dancing, msuic, and art. The education system favours left minded people, who get praise and move along in the system, while artists and dancers can be demonized as being bi-polar or just fidgety.
Ken points out that all children are creative. This is mostly from the fact that they are not afraid of being wrong or rejection of their ideas. But as children grow older, they taught what is right and wrong, and thus, limiting their scope for creativness. Ken beleive that people dont grow into being creative, but they are grown out of being creative with the education system used today.

What I tihnk is most important to take out of this talk from Ken is to not be afraid to be creative and make mistakes. To pursue different things like a child would, and have a child like curiosity for different things.( To approach different things like a child would)

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