Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
January 26th 2012 Posted at Uncategorized
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www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http
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@Jiubei This was inspirational. I hope that one day I am able to find what I will do and love for the rest of my life. I’m having a hard time in my english class right now and during my junior year in high school, a teacher also murdered my inspiration for writing. I will do my best though. I’m glad I was able to see your post.
@lordhaku I understand you better now, and in all fairness Ken Robinson might have been referring to the hypothetical situation in the future he had just mentioned. I did react a bit strongly when he said that, but I’d find it a lot easier to sympathise with him if he stopped coming out with at least somewhat questionable claims followed by “am I right” or “isn’t that true”.
@JuliusDS92 Oh, true – a degree is still useful, but in my experience, and given conversations with members of the previous generation, they’re not worth as much as they used to be. But you’re right when you say my claim generalises across one too many disciplines. My bad.
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the girl’s picture and our education analogy was amazing
What a great guy! Thanks for posting!
5 years later…has anything changed? That’s the sad thing
Perfect speech topic.
No. Because Creativity is the key of showing students how to be creative in each way. I’m creative when it comes to decoration. I’m not saying that I’m going to be a decorator, I’m saying that I can see what students or people want when they imagine how a cake is suppose to look like and how they want the colors to be, how they want the writing on the cake to say I see what they want the colors, image, decoration, sprinkles, and flavor to be.
@lordhaku Is there a lack of strength in degree level education across all disciplines? I’m sure this may be the case for some institutions for some disciplines, but that sentence seems too big a generalization.
I’m only a university applicant right now, but from my conversations with plenty of other people at and beyond my stage, I’ve never got the sense that you “have” to have a masters or phd. It may help, but it’s not required.
@JuliusDS92 No, hang on – I don’t think you’ve listened to him. He doesn’t knock those disciplines – he’s holding up the gradual lack of strength in degree-level higher education in ALL disciplines. I daresay degrees still remain as viable intellectual capital in all of those fields, BUT they’re not worth as much they used to be. You now have to add on a Masters, or a Doctorate, or A PhD etc.
Degrees aren’t worth anything? This sort of phrase makes me want to turn him off mid sentence. I think anyone will have a hard time becoming an engineer, atomic physicist, doctor, research mathematician, materials scientist or software developer, now or in 25 years time without a degree, or equivalent qualification. Or are all those jobs worthless?
I tried to open a charter school for perfoming arts but a State Senator prevented it from opening.
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To quote Einstein “It is a miracle that curiousity survives formal education”
President Obama needs to ask very nicely (if that doesn’t work, BEG) this guy to become his Education adviser.
if you’re not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original
@SKAgoi Hi, you should watch this: watch?v=r9LelXa3U_I
Ken Robinson rocks!
It seems that a lot of schools do suck, or a lot of teachers suck, but the basic process is sound. Rather than whining and skewing about for magic panceas, I think it would make more sense for pub school kids & their parents to demand the teaching standards of private schools. Of course, that might mean uniforms (oh no!) which is standard in most Asian schools, public/private. Asia is rising due to traditional education – it works. 300 mil in India now enjoy prosperity. Creativity not lacking.
public schools purpose is to kill you as an individual, and prepare you for acceptance of goverment control and a backwards society