Kia Amini
10/30/2017
Professor Calderin
“Do Schools Kill Creativity?” In this TED talk Sir Ken Robinson talks about a thought that many who have passed through the education system have thought but never seemed to say much about. After he introduces himself to everyone with some light jokes he starts with something on which we can all agree on, “everybody has an interest in education.” We all do whether we like it or not as a child we are made to go to school up until we reach college. Robinson knows that we all must have an interest because education is the seed that we plant to grow into a fruitful tree, as he says, “we have a huge vested interest in it, partly because its education that’s meant to take us into the future that we can’t …show more content…
Robinson takes a quote from Pablo Picasso when he says, “all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” It is hard to be someone who doesn’t fit into the academic guidelines of the education system and therefore many people who feel a passion for anything beyond the creativity of the Pythagorean theorem. Being creative is necessary for many of us and the school system rarely acknowledges this leaving us to oppress those talents of artist that we are born with. Robinson points out something that is true and should be worrisome but no one has ever paid mind to it- “every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects.” In an almost world-wide militarized formation we are taught the same formulas, grammatical styles, and biological cycles that every single person is …show more content…
Something that is so basic for us that when many children are young our first instincts are to draw whether it be on paper or the house walls. Robinson can even seem to be bothered as to why they don’t teach dance at school the same way that they teach math, “children dance all the time if they’re allowed to, we all do.” This is so true to a point that because of our natural desire to dance such things like night clubs and dance halls are consistently popular in human history. As Robinson describes it is because when we grow and the further we travel in the educational system we are taught to focus on our heads. We must always be thinking in the ways that the system has taught us to the point where maybe at times even the thoughts we think may not even be ours but simply from our surroundings. A good turning point in this talk is when Robinson states that he is a university professor and that if anyone were to describe the end result to someone who has no idea about the educational system it would be a university professor. This really shows that Robinson isn’t simply someone who really hates school and wants to finger paint sunsets all day, but that he has seen both sides to this journey and he knows that we are simply made for more than what the education system wants to rigidly make us think. When describing university professors, he
10/30/2017
Professor Calderin
“Do Schools Kill Creativity?” In this TED talk Sir Ken Robinson talks about a thought that many who have passed through the education system have thought but never seemed to say much about. After he introduces himself to everyone with some light jokes he starts with something on which we can all agree on, “everybody has an interest in education.” We all do whether we like it or not as a child we are made to go to school up until we reach college. Robinson knows that we all must have an interest because education is the seed that we plant to grow into a fruitful tree, as he says, “we have a huge vested interest in it, partly because its education that’s meant to take us into the future that we can’t …show more content…
Robinson takes a quote from Pablo Picasso when he says, “all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” It is hard to be someone who doesn’t fit into the academic guidelines of the education system and therefore many people who feel a passion for anything beyond the creativity of the Pythagorean theorem. Being creative is necessary for many of us and the school system rarely acknowledges this leaving us to oppress those talents of artist that we are born with. Robinson points out something that is true and should be worrisome but no one has ever paid mind to it- “every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects.” In an almost world-wide militarized formation we are taught the same formulas, grammatical styles, and biological cycles that every single person is …show more content…
Something that is so basic for us that when many children are young our first instincts are to draw whether it be on paper or the house walls. Robinson can even seem to be bothered as to why they don’t teach dance at school the same way that they teach math, “children dance all the time if they’re allowed to, we all do.” This is so true to a point that because of our natural desire to dance such things like night clubs and dance halls are consistently popular in human history. As Robinson describes it is because when we grow and the further we travel in the educational system we are taught to focus on our heads. We must always be thinking in the ways that the system has taught us to the point where maybe at times even the thoughts we think may not even be ours but simply from our surroundings. A good turning point in this talk is when Robinson states that he is a university professor and that if anyone were to describe the end result to someone who has no idea about the educational system it would be a university professor. This really shows that Robinson isn’t simply someone who really hates school and wants to finger paint sunsets all day, but that he has seen both sides to this journey and he knows that we are simply made for more than what the education system wants to rigidly make us think. When describing university professors, he