Title: Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Source/Author/Date: http://www.ted.com/playlists/24/re_imagining_school. Recorded Feb 2006 in Monterey, CA. Retrieved October 9, 2016.
Key Points:
- We our uncertain of our future, it is very unpredictable. And yet, somehow, our current education is supposed to prepare us for this unknown future
- Human creativity has a wide variety and range. Children particularly have an astounding capacity for innovative ideas and ability to develop those ideas and talents.
- .We are wasting children’s creative talents in the current education system.
- Creativity is equal to literacy and should hold the same level of importance in schools.
- Children are willing to take risks and are prepared to be wrong.
- Why do we educate people out of creativity?
- Math and language, humanities, and then the arts. This is the hierarchy of education systems across the globe.
- Public education began in the 1900s to feed industrialism, and serves two purposes: to get you a job, and/or to get you into college.
- There are multiple intelligences, and true creativity usually comes from an interplay of those intelligences.
Relevance:
Teachers, administrators and parents should consider the value of creativity in the development of our future in education. Creativity teaches us it’s okay to make mistakes. If we want innovative ideas as adults, we need an adult population that is not afraid to take risks. We are more than just one side of our brains. Academic inflation will make it so that in 30 years degrees will be essentially worthless because everyone will have one. It does not behoove us as a society to steer everyone down the same path.
Audience: Parents, current and future educators, administrators, policy makers.
The video you posted makes a lot of great points and that we need to continue to work on our education system. Arts do take a back seat to the main areas of focus our school pushes on our students. We can see this through the adaptation of the common core in our district. The various mediums of art are a large part of our society and creativity is important for any career. Creativity is generally labeled into the art field, but it can be applied to all areas of education. Being able to be creative in writing, reading, math, etc. can help students draw more interest to these subjects and produce more success.
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