The Point Of The Education Systems Way Of Teaching Kids

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.

As children continue their education, they are forced to suppress their creativity and strictly follow uniform ideas that have been used throughout generations. This concept leaves children no room for exploration despite its effectiveness in schools. Students need to learn that it is acceptable to solve problems using different methods. They must break free from the confines and uniform traditions of society; they must think for themselves. Countless novels and movies revolve around the idea of being unique and the importance of defying normality; however, its portrayal in real life is counterintuitive. The question remains: how can we depict a concept so universal without knowing how to first hand use it ourselves? Students need to learn that being unique is the first step to successes, and that creativity helps form a world of endless

When it comes down to a child’s creativity, it is being drained by the pre-generated creative art studios on computers. Before if a child wanted to show how artistic they could be, they would pull out a box of crayons or makers and draw a picture straight from their imagination. Now, we have coloring templates with preset colors that make children color inside the lines. The pseudo creativity has parents fooled into believing

Education has tarnished the idea of an original thought and has caused us to “grow out of creativity.” An idea that I am now convinced is a possible reality due to the intellectual, thought-provoking argument made by Sir Ken Robinson that schools do restrain creativity. In Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” Robinson argues that schools do kill creativity by addressing his audience in a sophisticated yet playful tone that keeps the audience entertained and invested in what is being discussed. Robinson connects with the audience by telling jokes, using simple reasoning, facts, and personal stories that allows the audience to be emotionally moved by the argument. Robinson is able to open up the audience to a reasonable idea with only one reasonable solution, and it just so happens to be his. Obviously, a bit biased, Robinson steers clear of self-promotion by recalling stories of other’s accounts and relating to people as a professor instead of a person.

All children can be creative, but it can be suppressed or enhanced depending on the support of the environment. Therefore there is the idea that society must be ready for new ideas and innovations.

Do schools kill creativity? This is the question speaker Ken Robinson asks during his speech. He explores how schools and education impact creativity in children and how if effects them later in life. He speaks of the extraordinary capability of human creativity, education, and the future. He does an excellent job of connecting with the audience, and capturing and holding the audiences attention throughout the speech. Ken Robinson is an excellent public speaker that grabs the audience in the introduction, carries them through the body, and keeps them until the conclusion.

Steal Like an Artist talks about education and creativity. Unfortunately, Austin Kleon does not go into depth about creativity in the classroom, but he did say, “School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap” (Kleon A., 2012, pg. 19). I think in todays society people do not expect creativity in education. Teachers just teach to the test because they want their students to do well on the standardized tests. I feel like school should be teaching students to be creative, and allowing students to use their mind in more ways than just memorizing to the test. Ken Robinson goes more into depth about creativity in education but both Robinson and Kleon agree that there should be creativity in education, “The challenge now is to transform education systems into something better suited to the real needs of the 21st century. At the heart of this transformation there has to be a radically different view of human intelligence and of creativity” (Robinson K., 2011, p. 14). In class we have also talked about how using creativity will allow students to remember things better, therefore they are educating themselves. If students do a dance that represents the solar system, they will be more likely to remember the solar system better. I think creativity in the classroom will allow students to learn in different ways and then the student will be getting a better

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

The other week, our colloquium watched the video below as a recommendation from Alice Campbell. First of all, Ken Robinson is hilarious and has a talent for tossing humor into every story he tells. His story about the little girl drawing a picture of God and telling her teacher that everyone will know what God looks like when she’s finished is adorable. I also love the story of the three little boys in the role of wise men for the Nativity Story, when the third boy delivers frankincense and says “Frank sent this.I found this video interesting because he talks about the importance of creativity in education and relates it back to children and the worldwide education system. According to Ken Robinson, all education systems across the world have

This Ted Talk lays out an argument that creativity is not only severely lacking in modern education but that it has been systematically marginalized by society during and after the industrial revolution. The speaker also contends that encouraging creativity in contemporary learning will enhance society in yet unknown ways. He reinforces his ideas with very poignant stories that show the inconsistencies with thinking on creativity versus reason and logic.

Youth must take certain classes to move on, even if those classes feel like they accomplish nothing in the long run.. All they need in order to get by in those classes is creativity; The ability to pull something out of the top of your head and by applauded for its innovation and uniqueness. That idea is illustrated in this quote here, “Research into how the brain produces

Remember being young and pretending to be an astronaut travelling in space? Is it a coincidence that the majority of the population of children love to invent characters, act, and draw with markers all the time? This was a point in life characterized by play and personal exploration where no one had told us how to use our imagination or had taught us the theories of others at the expense of our own creativity. But what does it mean to be creative? It means having the natural ability to view a concept from a different angle, like seeing a work of art on an empty canvas. So what is it that threatens us to faintly carry this natural capacity throughout adulthood? The answer is school. The system of education is an immense inhibitor to our innate ability to be creative. As students progress from year to year, they are stripped of their innovative minds (or their innovative minds are stigmatized) through the hierarchical organization of subjects, the reliance on a homogeneous curriculum, and the stigmatization of mistakes.

Creativity is something people use throughout their entire lives. The billboard that you drove by this morning was created by someone with an original idea. That someone who created that billboard has creativity. Not only do adults have creativity but it started when they were kids. In elementary schools teachers love helping their students broaden their imagination, but once the students get into middle school things start to change. In middle school teachers tell students to grow up and that they are to be ready for what life throws at them in high school. Their creativity is smashed right into the ground. Throughout middle school and high school all the teachers seem to be worried about is how we test. They seem to not care about what we want to do to broaden ourselves and to help us push ourselves harder, they just want us to test well for the state tests. Once those students get to college, they have another thing coming, they are told to think outside the box and to come up with something original but that is not how they were taught throughout middle school and high school. Teaching students to the test instead of trying to broaden their creativity is what is wrong with the system. Students need creativity throughout their life because in the real world people want to see something new, not the old stuff.

It can get harder to promote and develop creativity in children as they age, so it is important to foster this at a young age and continue to do so as children age. I have never thought about the fact that as children grow it can be harder to bring out their creative side. This brought me back to the benefits of creativity and how I can see why it would be harder for students to express their creative side. They are more self-conscious and when embarrassed it effects self esteem. Creating an environment that promotes creativity is even more important for students as they age, and it must be one that is judgment free. This will be one major factor in continuing to foster that creative side in students (p. 25).

Creativity is the basis of childhood and success in adulthood. It is the ability to create original and imaginative ideas and put them into action in an innovative way. Creativity is a skill that can be built upon with effort and persistence. For children, it comes in the form of imaginary worlds and mythical stories and it has always had a major part in all children’s lives. However, this creativity is diminishing in children from kindergarten to sixth grade. Whether this is caused by teaching methods, increased testing, increased dependency of technology, or how children are raised, it is a significant problem that should be addressed by the school boards. Therefore, creative thinking should be incorporated into existing classes in schools rather than taught in a completely different course in order to increase children’s learning capabilities and skills in the future and to increase interest in subjects that may not be very interesting to some students.