Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
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Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Listen here and comment below!
#14 Samata
Ken's TED Talk resonated with me. Schools often focus on traditional subjects, stifling creativity. In elementary school, this happened to me. Our group of 4 worked on a project on endangered animals which included a animal drawing by a classmate. Our teacher dismissed it by saying it wasn't relevant because it was a drawing, not a photo. This highlights the need for schools to embrace creativity, not punish it.
#5 Samata
Open comment: What I really liked how this Ted talk was making us realize how creativity is being stolen from children. Ken mentioned how education takes us into the future and how children tend to lose their creativity due to education being more important. Ken states how "Children have the capacity of creating innovations." But they cannot because they aren't allowed to express it. Ken also mentions how creativity has the equal importance as education. He also proves how schools focuses children on focusing on getting good grades, and how mistakes aren't optional when it comes to a academic lifestyle. In reality the education school gives is blinding the cirriculum, skills, creativity, and lifestyle.
I disagree with you ROBLESAL007 because my experience with school is the opposite. Every time I go into school, I feel like one can't be themselves or express their creativity and school is honestly draining to most. Yes, school can let you express your creativity with school clubs, projects, spirit weeks but that's it. Other than that, students go there to learn and leave. There is nothing creative about that and to most it drains and bores students out.
#15 Samata
https://youtu.be/2Yt6raj-S1M?si=DQa1MdUCUIVH_fLx
The speaker in the video talks about how, when they presented their business idea to their high school peers, their team was made fun of. This reaction is a perfect example of the TedTalk's claim that traditional schooling blocks creativity and discourages uniqueness. Younger elementary school students, on the other hand, reacted eagerly to the same idea and excitedly offered their lunch money to purchase the prototype. This contrast demonstrates how the educational system gradually shapes students into followers who lose their originality. The example lends support to the claim that academic intelligence is given too much weight in traditional education, neglecting and even suppressing creativity.
#25 Samata
I feel like this TED talk can really do show both how hard reality is when students can feel like they cannot express themselves in creativity. It can be a struggle in school when either not finding the right passion or path in the future. And still seeing these mistakes because maybe it was not the right creativity that the student wanted to into. But however I can see from other side of how many school now from back then have changed into more into diverse subjects. To bring out more students creativity in their subjects that can lead them to their future.