School Kill Creativity By Edwin Speech

According to the dictionary, creativity is the ability to create productively involving originality and imagination. From a young age, creativity is present in daily life, but as children grow up, it starts to disappear. According to Ken Robinson, this loss of creativity is as a result of how the school system was created and on what this system was focused on, also because universities system in which competition is crucial. In his speech, “School Kill Creativity” filmed on Ted Talks in 2006, Robinson analyze creativity and education based on the school system and how it affects children’s evolving. Robinson effectively persuades his audience, by giving a humorous tone throughout his speech, he uses a variety of strategies which support his claim that education is responsible for creativity loss in society. This supported by his main points: first that school supposed to embrace the potential children have instead it is oppressing it, secondly, that the school system focus on certain courses which don’t support all skills students have, and lastly that creativity have different necessities, for every person.
Robinson introduces his speech with a simple anecdote about a little girl who …show more content…
“They’re just a form of life, another form of life…there’s something curios about [them] in my experience they live in their heads.” He help his argument about mind and body coordination by saying that most professors, who almost live in school, are “disembodied” that they shape their minds and not bodies, instead of both. This shows the problem in the education system supporting only literacy courses, people are what they show to others, and also what they say, so both are important. Similar to the first anecdote, Robinson continues to talk in a playful but serious tone, creating the audience to support