Education is meant to take us into this future that we cannot grasp: “Children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue despite all the expertise, what the world will look like in five years time and yet we’re supposed to be educating them for it.” Former University professor, Ken Robinson, gave the speech “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” on
TED Talk back in 2006, and he argues that “creativity is as important in education now as literacy and we should treat is with the same status.” Robinson begins building his credibility by stating personal examples and well-respected resources, by giving convincing facts and examples as he successfully utilizes pathos and logos appeal to get his beliefs across to the audience. …show more content…
However, “Our education system has mined our minds, in the way that we strip mine the earth for a particular commodity and for the future it wont service. We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we are educating our children.” Robinson continues his discussion by giving a humorous example of a child who was in a drawing lesson and the teacher mentioned how this little girl hardly paid attention in her drawing classes and she had decided that she was going to draw God. The teachers response was “but nobody knows what God looks like” and the little girls says “well they will in a minute.” The point of that little story was to add a humorous rhetorical strategy as well as get a point across that kids will take a chance because they are not scared of being wrong about something and to emphasize that “if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.” By the time that children become adults they have lost that capacity and have now become scared of being wrong because we stigmatize mistakes and we are running our national education systems with the idea that the worst thing you can
TED Talk back in 2006, and he argues that “creativity is as important in education now as literacy and we should treat is with the same status.” Robinson begins building his credibility by stating personal examples and well-respected resources, by giving convincing facts and examples as he successfully utilizes pathos and logos appeal to get his beliefs across to the audience. …show more content…
However, “Our education system has mined our minds, in the way that we strip mine the earth for a particular commodity and for the future it wont service. We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we are educating our children.” Robinson continues his discussion by giving a humorous example of a child who was in a drawing lesson and the teacher mentioned how this little girl hardly paid attention in her drawing classes and she had decided that she was going to draw God. The teachers response was “but nobody knows what God looks like” and the little girls says “well they will in a minute.” The point of that little story was to add a humorous rhetorical strategy as well as get a point across that kids will take a chance because they are not scared of being wrong about something and to emphasize that “if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.” By the time that children become adults they have lost that capacity and have now become scared of being wrong because we stigmatize mistakes and we are running our national education systems with the idea that the worst thing you can