Ken Robinson Says Schools Kill Creativity: June 2006
Ken makes some highly important points in this video. The main thing that I walked away with was this idea of how we are born with creativity and grow out of it as we get older. The educational school system today is moving more towards a business model of learning. Someone who is going to school today to become a teacher is ideally a future teacher of America. However, we have no idea what our future will look like. We have ideas and guesses, but there is nothing set in stone telling us what our future will entail. More and more teachers today are teaching to the test and are afraid to stray away from the set curriculum. This does not lead much room for students to be creative. As a future teacher of America, I always push my students to produce their best possible work and I always support creativity.
In the beginning of the talk, Ken points out that children are not afraid to be wrong. I have to agree with this statement, but what has happened to us? I know I fear to be wrong all the time. This idea of the revolution of education has stepped in and threatened our creative minds. This new competition is pushing everyone’s limits and pointing fingers at the people who are making better progress than others. It starts at a young age and works its way to the top where it is affecting schools now. Schools are competing for the highest grades and tests scores, which in turn is forcing more teachers to teach to the test rather than teaching more to foster creative thinking. Eventually this needs to stop because it is just building more competition on top of competition, which is not healthy for anyone to experience.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
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