Sunday, March 15, 2009

Do schools kill creativity?

Peep the words from Sir Ken Robinson. This is a very intriguing and at-times, hilarious 20-minute speech from 2006 that embodies some heavy food for thought.



a few of the concepts shared:
  • If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
  • We stigmatize mistakes.
  • We are educating people out of their creative capacity.
  • We get educated out of creativity.
  • Every education system has the same hierarchy with math & language at the top and arts at the bottom.
  • Some people have to move in order to think.
More ill ideas and thoughts can be found at the TED web site.

1 comment:

winterssoulstyce said...

sometimes i feel as if the human race is going to eat itself alive. a lot of us care about the "bottom line," both in education and business. i am glad to see that other people are seeing that there needs to be a shift in focus when determining what is important.