The State of Education and Its Downfalls
Brenden Papageorge
Ivy Tech
Traci Bryan
ENGLISH 111
Abstract While reading and watching both Sir Ken Robinson’s short video Do Schools Kill Creativity? and Kate Harding’s How I Bluffed My Way Through College, I became distinctly aware that education isn’t currently suiting the interests of students. Once these issues have been noted we can expand our search and discover the effect of this on the student. The youth go through the educational system with the expectation that they won’t enjoy most of the assigned or available topics; yet we never question why they don’t care about what work they have assigned. The issue with ignoring the interests of students has been overlooked for numerous years …show more content…
“So I want to talk about education and I want to talk about creativity. My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” (Robinson,2006), here Sir Ken Robinson is pointing out the topic and opening it to discussion especially in relation to creativity a subject that is pushed down and left to the dust in current educational values. Creativity as a trait has diminished in value due to the restructuring of our values to specific fields most being S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) due to this rearrangement we no longer value our child’s interests nor do we value creativity. For example, “…all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.” (Robinson, 2006), this is a wonderful example of how we treat individual prowess in fields that do not fall under S.T.E.M. and extinguish the gifts within our …show more content…
Societies function on making people useful and being useful for people, overall, we all benefit from this philosophy yet this is sometimes perverted and turned to something worse. We have allowed the prerogatives of industry to straddle the youth of our future generations “Around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism.” (Robinson,2006). We can see that industrious views brought about a wonderful system that brings knowledge to large groups yet it molded those views to be strict and rigid. We know longer allow the pursuit of knowledge to govern our educational systems yet let the dollar do its
Brenden Papageorge
Ivy Tech
Traci Bryan
ENGLISH 111
Abstract While reading and watching both Sir Ken Robinson’s short video Do Schools Kill Creativity? and Kate Harding’s How I Bluffed My Way Through College, I became distinctly aware that education isn’t currently suiting the interests of students. Once these issues have been noted we can expand our search and discover the effect of this on the student. The youth go through the educational system with the expectation that they won’t enjoy most of the assigned or available topics; yet we never question why they don’t care about what work they have assigned. The issue with ignoring the interests of students has been overlooked for numerous years …show more content…
“So I want to talk about education and I want to talk about creativity. My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” (Robinson,2006), here Sir Ken Robinson is pointing out the topic and opening it to discussion especially in relation to creativity a subject that is pushed down and left to the dust in current educational values. Creativity as a trait has diminished in value due to the restructuring of our values to specific fields most being S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) due to this rearrangement we no longer value our child’s interests nor do we value creativity. For example, “…all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.” (Robinson, 2006), this is a wonderful example of how we treat individual prowess in fields that do not fall under S.T.E.M. and extinguish the gifts within our …show more content…
Societies function on making people useful and being useful for people, overall, we all benefit from this philosophy yet this is sometimes perverted and turned to something worse. We have allowed the prerogatives of industry to straddle the youth of our future generations “Around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism.” (Robinson,2006). We can see that industrious views brought about a wonderful system that brings knowledge to large groups yet it molded those views to be strict and rigid. We know longer allow the pursuit of knowledge to govern our educational systems yet let the dollar do its