Education and Creativity

School kills creativity

This video comes from a site called Ted.com (ideas worth spreading) featuring a man named Sir Ken Robins who is speaking about how public education is killing the creative minds of its students and almost forcing them to value subjects such as maths over the arts. The main aim of this is to satisfy university requirements rather then allowing children to explore all creative avenues. He also uses funny anecdotes from is personal life to engadge the audience.

Here is my summary on the video:

Education and Creativity

• Kids will take a chance, if they don’t know they will have a go, there not frightened of being wrong
• If your not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original
• Picasso: all children are born artists
• Grow/educated out of creativity
• We are uneducated about what the future will bring
• Every education system in the world has rankings of subjects. Math languages, humanities then the arts
• Education succeeds/benefits university professors
• School education steers us away from the things you like on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that e.g music, art
• Everything depends on university entrants
• Intelligence- diverse, dynamic/interactive and distinct
• If a man speaks his mind in a forest and no woman hears him is he still wrong?
• Our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology- richness of human capacity