Steal The Baudelaire The Art Of Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures rather than undermines creativity. I fully agree with everything Sir Ken Robinson discusses in his speech. The importance of creativity, originality, and the arts have been deemed nonessential in the public school system. The emphasis placed on math, the sciences, and test scores have stifled many children from discovering and flourishing at their talents. If children are not exposed to the arts and the ingenuity needed to think for themselves how will they have the ability to produce an original story, even if they are taught writing and grammar.

Creativity or the lack of encouraging creativity can be seen declining as you get lower in the class level in Anyons research. She states “Work tasks do not usually request creativity” and “Creativity is not often requested in social studies and Science projects”. In an article entitled “The Impact of Creativity on the Brain” by Judy Willis M.D; M.E.D posted on the website Radtech.com. “Neuroscience and cognitive science research are increasingly providing information that correlates creativity with intelligence; academic, social, and emotional success; and the development of skill sets and the highest information processing (Executive functions)”. This basically states that if creativity is encouraged then the upper intelligence functions of students are developed which includes social and emotional success. Which shows that if you stifle creativity you basically limit the

Creativity is about risk taking and making connections, allowing children to explore and express themselves through a variety of media or materials including, dance, music, making things, drawing, painting and make believe and to make new things emerge as a result. Being creative is strongly linked to play and can emerge through a

Sarah Mitty, a journalist, writes, “However noble the idea, this... requirement seems highly unnecessary. After all those... years... [spent] suffering..., why should they be forced to… take an arts class again? If a student has a secret artsy talent he is interested in pursuing, he can make it clear.” However, some students might not even know they are interested in the arts. I didn’t know that I would like the woodshop class my parents made me take in seventh grade, but I ended up loving it. If my parents hadn’t made me take that class, I never would have discovered that I liked that sort of thing. It’s important that students try new things to find things that they love to do. And even if they don’t find something they love to do in a fine art class, sometimes in life you have to do things you don’t want to, and it’s good for people to learn how to do that.

If you search almost anywhere on the internet about creativity and public schools you will run into a video by a man named Sir Ken Robinson. He emphasizes that schools kill creativity in every way. On the other hand, President Barack Obama disagrees whole heartedly. Both of these men agree that creativity is important to children and schools but they disagree on whether or not creativity is being implemented in schools. Robinson stated in his lectured at TED 2006, “I believe this passionately, that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it” (Ken Robinson. TED2006). He goes to say that

In the article “Is Creativity Endangered?” written by Cecilia Conrad , she goes on to state that most people who are able to come up with new innovative ideas often spend most time going against the norm, because of the lack of creative expression. “That said, people with innovative and cutting-edge ideas have likely spent much of their lives swimming against the tide.” One of the reasons being that in educational studies of creativity has been that teachers don’t particularly enjoy personality traits that involve creativity. Research has proven to us that teachers do not want students with a creative personality, like accepting authority and giving blind loyalty (Cropley, 1992). Usually children and students who have creative minds are seen

The concept of creativity seems to put stress on many people. Take art for example; when asking adults if they can draw, many respond with the same response, “I am not good; I can barely draw a stick figure.” When did stick figures become bad? Has any adult tried to create something out of their stick figure that would be a new and inventive approach to the common drawing, embracing the unique new ideas art brings? This is why the arts are not as celebrated as sports or core classes. There is no right or wrong way to be creative. Creativity is different for everyone, and having a class that does not have an exact rubric or an exact point keeping system to separate the winners from the losers seems ridiculous to some students. How can schools see who is the best, or at the top of the class? The answer is simple, schools should not. "If they're worried about their test scores and want a way to get them higher, they need to give kids more arts, not less," says Tom Horne, Arizona's state superintendent of public instruction. "There's lots of evidence that kids immersed in the arts do better on their academic tests"(Lynch). The arts are not about who did it the best, they are about expression, and letting the mind be free in ways that other subjects can not allow. This is a kind of freedom by which the student can take control of their destiny within

Do you think you should be able to express your creativity in school? If you say yes. What about Arts Education classes, but what if I were to say that they were trying to take away those classes. How are you going to express your creativity? School Corporations are trying to take Arts Education away from the schools electives. These are classes for people wanting to be musicians, singers, inventors, and artists. The reasons why Arts Educations should stay in school is because of needing to fit in school, to get to be a professional, and it helps critical thinking and analysis skills.

A smart man said “Creativity is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same standing.” (Ken Robinson-“Do schools kill creativity?”). There are multiple studies on how creativity helps improve a student’s mind. Project based learning is a huge creative booster for students. A math teacher from California uses projects to do math instead of using the text book. From doing this, she’s had more students pass her class then from when she was teaching straight from the text books. Instead of having standardized tests, using more creative techniques for students to enjoy the learning they’ve done and for them to show the higher officials what the students are learning. Creativity is the process of turning real world problems into an understanding by extending the minds cognitive processes. In Alabama, kindergartners are studying different ways to be creative.

Creativity is equally as important as literacy, and we need to start treating it that way in schools around the world. According to Ken Robinson’s claim in his, “How Schools Kill Creativity” speech, he believes this to be exceptionally true. All children are creative and talented, however, we have grown up in a world where we believe that it’s wrong to exemplify our creativity. Robinson uses both, pathos, and ethos to help make his claim. He arises emotion in you; he causes you to really think, to trust him, and to question ultimately, how things are being done in the educational system. We as a world have become so consumed with the idea of putting each child into a category of what they’re going to be successful in, regardless of their creativity or passions. You’re either good at math, science, or English; everything is based on your academic ability. What happens then to the people who aren’t academically smart, but are more creative? They are then made to feel that what they have to offer the world simply isn’t good enough, but the truth is, it is good enough. Over time however, we are taught out of our creativity. Schools around the world kill creativity by instilling a sense of fear in the child that what they are doing, and how they feel is wrong, this ultimately discourages them, and they fall victim to the industrialized educational system that we have present day. Robinson believes now more than

Many people measure creativity based on the idea of the person, not the fact that the idea might not be original. This can be because people might not understand what creativity really is. “‘Creativity is seeing things in a new way, breaking barriers that stood in front of you for some time. Its essence is in its freshness and the ability to make dreams come to life”’(Dalile). To many people creativity is just coming up with ideas. This isn't fully true creativity is one of the few things that make us human. It allows us to explore and see different solutions to every problem in front of us. Many people believe that you just need the basics in life to accomplish your dreams. Although some teachers and parents believe we should also the arts as much as we focus on math, science, history, and english. “‘We shouldn’t broaden our curriculum until we get the basics, but i would like to see students that are able to speak multiple languages.”’This could be a direct cause of the No Child Left Behind Act.

In this reflection paper I will discuss my thoughts on the video “Do Schools Kill Creativity” by Ken Robinson. I do agree with some of the ideas that Robinson speaks about in the video. Learning is the act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences (Wikipedia, 2017). As children, our imaginations tend to run wild and we have a strong urge to discover new things. I believe that once children enter into the school system that urge slowly begins to drift away. It’s very important that children keep that appetite for curiosity flaming, because it helps them to discover who they are. In the video, Ken Robinson states that the public education system is destroying the talents of children. I do agree with him on this, because like he mentioned classes for drama and music are being taken away.

Many people believe that education and creativity go together. The smarter you are, the more creative you are, but this is not the case at all. The education system is actually undermining creativity. Sir Kenneth Robinson is a british author and the director of the Arts in Schools Project. He has won various achievements in his career including the LEGO prize for international achievement in education. Ken Robinson did an amazing speech which turned out to be the most popular speech on Ted Talk to this day. He had this amazing speech in February of 2006. He starts his speech out by saying, “. . . children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that’s been on parade for the past four days, what the world will look like in five years’ time. And yet we’re meant to be educating them for it” (1). Ken Robinson believes that creativity nowadays is just as important as literacy in school, and we need to treat them with the same status through the education system. He starts talking about a story of young kids, and it sets up one of the best quotes I have ever heard. He says, “Kids are not afraid of being wrong. Being wrong is not being creative, but, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original” (2).

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after growing up” (Pablo Picasso). Teachers should use creativity to help students find a balance between different types of thinking. Therefore, creative skills are just as important as a creative attitude. Schools need to offer children a larger variety of creative experiences. It’s a wonderful way for children to express themselves. Furthermore, expression is very important because everyone needs a chance to show who they are and what they feel. Creative opportunities is not only helpful in schools, but it also paves a way into a creative future. There are many jobs that involve art, music, writing, and other creative skills. Students need to have more opportunities and knowledge in creativity because it helps students develop skills, allows students to express themselves, and they will have more job opportunities in a creative field.

When I was young, I anticipated, a creative person was the one who could compose rhyming poems and stories, who could draw beautiful pictures, or who could sing and dance effortlessly. I attempted to be creative several times. They were dull and lifeless. I now recognize my creativity is in STEM fields rather than in arts and humanities. I have enjoyed the challenges problems in math and science classes. And thinking to solve a problem in various ways is also being a creative. However, the school has a huge impact on choosing it.