Do Schools Today Kill Creativity?
Tue, 01/22/2008 - 23:08 — sonya
If you have 20 minutes to spare, check out this clever and entertaining speech by Sir Ken Robinson. He makes the case for an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says.
If you like this, there are a lot of amazing talks available from the TED conferences.
If you like this, there are a lot of amazing talks available from the TED conferences.
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Thanks for the Video!
This was worth listening to.
I found two other links that folks might want to check out if they enjoyed the video. Both are interviews with Sir Ken.
http://www.phorecast.com/2007/12/10/phorecast-podcast-no-01-%e2%80%93-si...
http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/232-dishymix/episodes/3066-sir-ken...
Enjoy!
Ruby
Sir Ken Robinson
Very interesting and quite funny.
Although I feel true creativity transcends everything,it's difficult to develop into the person you are,if you are told from the beginning you are wrong.
I don't believe schools set out to be these bad places,but inevitably morph into these cold institutions,regardless of their intent.Extinguishing all signs of creativity along the way.
How relieved I am to find a secular hs/us site.
Sir Ken Robinson
I myself was advised not to follow my interests (psychology, philosophy and Buddhism) at the university level because they weren't going to make me super-employable. Computer science was suggested. Or at least Sciences, to keep all doors open, as though I could always "fall back" on some "lesser" subject if I needed to...
Well, I didn't listen :-)
I'm glad you found our secular hs/us site!