Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

WEEK 2 CREATIVE STUDIES

As we know, education system in school is important.People go to school to get education, knowledge,and of course as a part of our pathway in persuading our dreams, for most of us that is :)
 

There are  debate and talks  circulating around saying that schools kill creativity.But for me, it is a 50:50 ratio. I say so becoz depending on the kind of environment we live in, we grow out of creativity just as being said by Ken Robinson.

 

 

 

 

 

SO,what is

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 According to Robert E. Franken, creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others

-Three reasons why people are motivated to be  creative:
1)need for novel, varied, and complex stimulation
2)need to communicate ideas and values
3)need to solve problems
In order to be creative, you need to be able to view things in new ways or from a different perspective. Among other things, you need to be able to generate new possibilities or new alternatives. Tests of creativity measure not only the number of alternatives that people can generate but the uniqueness of those alternatives.

The ability to generate alternatives or to see things uniquely does not occur by change; it is linked to other, more fundamental qualities of thinking, such as flexibility, tolerance of ambiguity or unpredictability, and the enjoyment of things heretofore unknown.
http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/creativity/define.htm
 

  *don't be afraid to be CRe AtIVe!!! Just do wat u THINK
    & accomplish it :D
HERE IS a video of talk by Sir Ken Robinson :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

 

So, what do you think and can reflect on through his talk?

First of all, i agree with Ken Robinson's point that most kids are steered away from doing things that they like on the ground that they would never get a job by doing that. Just becoz they have been instill by the thought of the most useful subjects for work are the top.

These concept of thinking have seize the creativity in everyone. From my point of view, one could only shine the most when they are doing the things that they like. For instance, it doesn't mean that kids that doesn't like to study or graduate from college won't get a good life.

 

Let's look at the fact that these famous,successful people below does best even if they did not attend college or dropout from schools.

 

Roman Abramovich, richest man in Russia, billionaire. Dropped out of college. He studied at the Moscow State Auto Transport Institute before taking a leave of absence from academics to go into business. He later earned a correspondence degree from the Moscow State Law Academy.

Ansel Adams, photographer. Dropped out of high school.

Sheldon Adelson, billionaire casino owner. Dropped out of City College of New York to become a court reporter. He made his first fortune doing trade shows.

Ferran Adria, chef. Has been called the world's greatest chef. Did not finish high school.

Ben Affleck, actor, screenwriter. Left the University of Vermont after one semester; then dropped out of Occidental College to pursue acting.

Billie Joe Armstrong, front man for Green Day punk rock band. High school dropout. As he noted, “I finally realized that high school didn't make any sense for me then. So I quit.”
[SOURCE =http://collegedropoutshalloffame.com/]

Hence, I would like to specify my idea. To me,what greatly affects me from Ken Robinson's talk is this point

"We should start to reconstitute our perception of the richness of human capacity. Our education system has mined our minds, in the way we strip mine the earth for a particular commodity. And for the future it won’t service. WE have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we’re educating our children.

 

The only way we’ll do it, is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are, and seeing our children for the hope that they are, and our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future, which we may not even see. But they will, and our job is to help prepare them to make something of it."

From this, I greatly feel that creativity stands at the same importance as academic perfomance. We may have various kinds of occupation from engineers, scientists, doctors, and all sort but without creative people, the world is dull. School education is important but I think that there are people or parents who still think that education is more important than persuing unrealistic dreams.


Because of this, most individuals could not expand their creativity to the maximum potential and I think that some schools do kill creativity in a way of thinking that core subjects are more important than art subjects.

 

I do personally experienced it as in school , most teacher has high hopes on the science stream students but along the line they actually negleting the importance of the art stream students too. It doesn't mean that having greater intelligence and knowledge would be better than being a carefree, creative person.It's just about one being themselves......  :)
All in all, to have a better world, creativity is needed to expand every country just like how Renaissance have borned many creative, artistic individuals. ^^