Do schools kill creativity?
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Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Between all of his jokes, he states that the educational system needs a radical revision, due to the fact that it was designed at the time of the industrial revolution and has had little changes since.
Diego Rodrigues
October 19th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
OMG This video is Informative and HILARIOUS at the same time.
It’s weird coincidence to me that this video was posted because I have been trying to convince my college class of the faults of the educational system.
Great Post
October 21st, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I did not watch the video yet, but I want to share my observations on the topic.
Schools do kill creativity in most students at college.
I used to study at three colleges located in different countries, I was part of three different education systems worldwide so I have some understandings how the education works worldwide in some aspect.
Actually is the stress what kills students creativity.
Most students in college do not pursue knowledge, and how to apply the information presented in college. All students pursue grades and diplomas. Diploma and grades can walk them through the door, but this the far it can gets.
Most students try to prevent failure from school, this creates stress, therefore kills the creativity in college. Moreover I think students should embrace failure, thus colleges should emphasize on it, rather than helping them to succeed. I know this sounds backwards, but people understand the world backwards. You can find evidence for this all over the place, I am not going into this right now.
Also most college systems are embraced by business companies. This makes college education less relevant to students and life in general. Everyone is born ignorant, so people learn whatever what is presented in school. Today, we have Internet which is a bliss.
Free lectures online from expensive colleges all over the world are presented in YouTube.
Go to www. youtube . com / edu
Thanks
October 21st, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Diego, this is one of the better TED talks, from the TED Network. Peter and Jacque and Roxanne are all planning to go on and talk about different things eventually.
This is an older video from a couple years ago, but I still love it. Ken Robinson is pretty funny. He reminds me of Eddie Izzard a bit.
Itzo: Thanks for the contribution!! I hope you watch the video and find it even more eye opening as to how the edu system robs us of our creativeness
October 21st, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I recently had a debate on my school forums trying to explain to students how the system generates the aberrant behavior of plagiarizing.
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Thanks for the comments!
Itso, I agree with you… from personal experience, I have seen that stress does kill creativity, and there may be other factors that contribute as well. I hope you get a chance to check this video out… it’s just as entertaining as it is enlightening
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:05 pm
This is one of my favorite TED talk speeches. Not only does school kill creativity it very rarely makes kids excited about school. It becomes a chore. Some of us were lucky to have that special teacher. The class you loved to go to. If the whole school experience was like that with every class and teacher, what a huge difference it would be.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:22 am
School was always told to me to be the place/institution you go to that prepares you for “THE WORK FORCE”. Not a place for developing an individual that would actually add to society instead of subtracting through monetary desire.
Teachers are taught a kind of singularity of the mind that always is focused on productivity instead of activity. In other words perpetuation of the old standards of the established empire. This you learn mostly in ‘History’ whatever that REALLY was!