Schools Kill Creativity
I just watched a fascinating video delivered by a guy named Ken Robinson. He used humor as a way to communicate his speech about how schools kill creativity. The speech was very funny and at the same time very inspiring. Accord to Ken Robinson, kids are not afraid to do things and to get things wrong in life. It's the wrong things that kids do in life that inspires creativity and originality. As kids grow up into adults, they lose that fear and become afraid to make mistakes and therefore lose the inspiration to be creative.
Adults often tell their children to not do anything with music, arts, and dancing because their is little or future in these fields. Art programs and music programs are the first to be cut in public schools which result in children having less creative ways to express their thinking. Ken also states that educators must start to educate the whole child with all subjects and just the ones that count on standardized tests. As an educator, this video made me realize that the future of the world lies in the creativity of our youth and that schools need to get back to teaching creative ways in order to inspire children to be creative in their own ways.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
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