Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Schools Vs. Creativity?
What are your thoughts regarding Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation
regarding "schools killing creativity?" In your response, please
reflect, think, ponder, question, or wonder. Please complete this
blog response after watching the video.Your response is due by 3:40p.m. the day we watch the video in class.
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He has been talking about how deep education runs with people and how everybody has a little bit of an interest in it. "If you're not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original". The whole public education is based on what work you could get in the 19th century.
I agree with the notion that we are being educated out of our creative mindsets. Schools today will continuously say "it's okay to make mistakes because you learn from them." when the only thing you're learning from making mistakes is to never make them. Not everybody thinks the same. Not everybody learns the same. Not everybody feels the same. It is unfair to make everybody learn the same thing even if the subjects being taught don't resonate. It also really struck me as odd that the public education system that we know today was really made during the Industrial Revolution on the grounds that art like music and dance wouldn't be useful jobs in the 19th century, where the arts weren't as valued. Also, the story about the young dancer really resonated with me because I understood that not everyone is wired to think the same way.
Original ideas that have value, otherwise known as creativity is used again and again all over the world. However, the system of education has corrupted millions of people of creativity, even though the youth are those with the most creativity. School teaches every child that their worth is based upon grades and talents that can be found within school, even though every child has a tremendous talents, because children are not frightened to be wrong, and take a try at it. School teaches kids to be frightened to be wrong because school tells them being wrong is horrible and unacceptable, therefore taking away creativity because no one can be creative without being okay with being wrong. Everywhere you go, schools have the same hierarchy of what is most important. It goes math, english, science, history, and then the arts or other creative works and classes because, in the world, arts and music are seen as less, and therefore putting the creative part of the brain at risk of losing its sense of creativity. When kids are given a chance to get out of the average public school system and are able to find how they learn best, the world would flourish with creativity.
Everyone has an interesting education and everyone has a different perspective about education. Education is supposed to take us into the future that we don’t know yet. Education is unpredictable and we don’t know how kids are gonna do that start school this year. Creativity isn’t treated the same as education and it should be treated the same. Creativity is all about the way that you see something compared to what someone else might think the same way. Young kids are usually more creative and people think that young kids grow out of creativity. Students should be able to show their creativeness through the way they learn. In a few years more people will be graduating through education than ever before. We all think in different ways and it shows through they way people do things. Creative people who can’t sit still move to think, a lot of people who move to think like to dance and some of those people become very famous from that. Creativity can be found in so many ways and this Ted Talk really made this idea important.
I thought it was very interesting how he said we don't grow in to creativity, we grow out of it. This is definitely true in my opinion because even as I have got older, I have found my i'm less interested in things I used to enjoy and have a harder entertaining myself and doing something new. I also really like how he showed that many people from schools have told students that the could not do jobs that are very hard to get or are more creative. I think if people were to help make school a place where people could express their interests a lot more, people who definitely wan to attend there more often.
In the video I was thinking about how kids think what ever they do is best like how his sons girlfriend thought he'd never find another girl like her. I was also wondering why the schools don't let kids do what they want to do like when he said i want to be an artist don't be an artist etc. I couldn't believe how most of the college students that have a phd go home and play video games rather than have a job.
Why don't we treat other subjects as seriously as math or english we don't allow mistakes and they are seen to be bad and they should be seen as an opportunity to learn from it not to fall behind. youth is an opportunity to forge who you become and you should learn and pursue what your passion is. I think schools are strangling creativity to teach you math and history and other stuff that you won't use in the future
-Dain Presley
My thoughts on the video presentation about schools killing creativity are that I like the idea that we don't know where creativity is going. Education is seen to take us into this future that we can't grasp and children are leading it. Creativity should be seen as just as important or even more important than other subjects being taught in the school system. When being a child you aren't scared of being wrong that's why they are more original, but they lose this capacity when they grow up and they are then scared to make mistakes. Education has rankings for subjects in every school system and this shouldn't be because there are things just as important that aren't being recognized, like things that involve more creativity. Academic performance is the most important thing to school systems because they want the students to have reasonable academic focused jobs. This is wrong creativity should play a stronger role in school not intelligence and the system needs to let kids feel like they still can fail without destroying their future. Not every child thinks the way the school systems thinks that we should be thinking.
Throughout the Ted Talk "School vs Creativity" I feel as though Sir Ken Robinson is correct in saying that we need to grow into creativity. In the hierarchy, all the main subjects are taking more seriously than the arts. School is a protracted entrance into colleges and universities. Intelligence is a must-have in order to have certain jobs, this is a sign of academic inflation. Several people that get involved in certain arts become very successful and can be very creative. In conclusion, I feel as though schools need to get people involved in more types of art and should be just as important as any other classes we accept to take at our school.
In the clip from Schools vs. Creativity by Sir Ken Robinson, I thought he made very interesting points. Robinson said that educators stifled creativity by stigmatizing mistakes, but if we don't make mistakes we don't come up with anything original. This was very interesting to me because I had never thought of it like that, as we have been told that mistakes are bad and set you back. He also said that we are steered away from the activities that we like at school because we won't have a job in that area. I feel like students should enjoy ourselves and enjoy activities that we can participate in, but as I look at it, we are steered away from arts and whatnot. Original values may not apply anymore such as only focusing on what you could do for work, but instead what makes us happy.
While watching Sir Ken Robinson’s “Schools Killing Creativity”, I agreed with his education goes deep with people quote because I have a huge interest in being educated, and staying educated. I feel inspired to be educated for many years of my life after college. To become a doctor, one requires around 10 years of schooling. Though around 2065 I will retire, and in the amount of time I receive my education and retire, the education I received may have changed within that time. To succeed in this field also, one’s creativity could be demolished. Preparing the mind to always be correct in answers makes the person scared to be creative with answers. Therefore, this teaches kids to demolish their creativity to solve possible problems. The education system can teach children to young adults to use their bodies as a transport system for their minds rather than exercising their minds as well as their body. Doctoral education teaches med students to exercise their minds while helping others bodies. This video helped me further my provision of the education system's ability to further evolve positively.
Sir Ken Robinson presents a humorous yet compelling case on schools focus on academics and lesser focus on creativity and the arts. I agree with most of what he's saying. People disregard things like art and music because "you're not gonna do that when you're older". However, in my opinion, people need to be able to think for themselves and have their own ideas and opinions. Creativity is what makes the world interesting. If people didn't learn music, we wouldn't have legendary artists and songs from across the ages. If people didn't practice art, we wouldn't have some of the most iconic works that humans have laid eyes on.
Sir Ken Robinson talks about how creativity is essential in education. He said that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you can't be creative. As children grow up, we only focus on their heads, not their whole body school at a point isn't about learning, it's about whos doing the best. Education was fit to industrialization not for making students successful in the things they want to be. In the next 30 years, more people will be going to school than ever before. I think that the points he brings up are critical. Robinson talked about how creativity needs to be as important as English, and schools shouldn't discourage things such as dance, art, music, and theatre.
Sir Ken Robinson feels that students have creativity and innovation within them, but that education lessons this importance of this aspect of life. In schooling, students are taught that there is always a right answer and that it is not acceptable to be wrong. Because this is pounded into people’s heads, their ability to be creative is lost because their ability to have original ideas is lost. This original definition of creativity made me think that creativity is more than having artistic ideas. Students are taught that their passions can not be their whole life, the only way they make money. Based on this talk we can infer that this person believes that education is not always structured to lead children to follow their own paths and to follow their own creative interests. Life does not work this way. People work in one subject area. With all these people working in their own areas, the structure of our society is established demonstrating that everyone’s original ideas/ everyone’s creativity helps society function in the way we know it to function today.
The video "schools killing creativity?" made me really think about school and education. One of the things that I thought was about how many students are afraid of being wrong. Now I can definitely relate to this when I have an assignment due and i'm so scared to get any of the questions or problems wrong. The video also talked about how children are taught math and science all the time but how they are rarely able to practice drama, dance or art. This also made me wonder what it would be like if everyone could spend more time doing arts and different activities, how different would the world be? I also thought that it was very interesting about how Sir Ken Robinson talked about how dance was a great outlet for kids that couldn't sit still. Overall i mostly agree with this video because I do think that most people eventually grow out of their creativity.
After watching this video I recognized that creativity is a lot more important. he talks about shakespeare a very creative person being a 7 year old. This is important because schools stop kids from doing art and music and wants them to be a university professor. He then states that creativity should be treated like literacy.
Sir Ken Robinson gave a very compelling speech on schools. He said many interesting things that gave me a different prospective. If your not prepared to be wrong then your not going to come up with something original. We don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. All the people who are really smart don't think they are smart because the things they were good at weren't valued. creativity is the possess of having original ideas that you value. some people have to move to think.
In the Ted Talk "Schools vs Creativity" I agree with what he is saying about the creativity. kids that don't care if they are wrong come up with the best ideas. But when we do grow up people stress that mistakes are some of the worst things that can happen so people don't speak up. In class I know a lot of people that are extremely creative but they don't ever speak up because people feel if they are wrong the teacher will be mad or they will get a bad grade. But when you talk to younger kids that haven't been taught that they don't care if they are wrong. Little kids will say the craziest most creative stuff without the care of messing up or being wrong. He also stated, "They don't teach dance and art as they teach math" I think that was a really good point people don't teach the creative stuff they teach the standard math strategies everyday but they teach art or dance maybe 2 times a week for 30 min a day. They teach the things the jobs want you to know not the things you want to know. People teach you how to do hard math or analyze stuff but they don't teach how to be musician or a dancer in school. They say "you wont be a musician." or "you wont grow up and be a dancer.". They tell kids that there dreams isn't the reality that they will have people say you will be an accountant or a office worker. It takes the drive and creativity out of the kid when their dream is shut down because it is not the reality that they will become of them.
In Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation regarding "schools killing creativity?" I think that this relates very much to kids in everyday life. I think Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation relates to everyday life because most schools are only teaching the basic need to know subjects. Many schools have now been incorporating more art classes to help but to most kids, those classes don't matter and like Sir Ken Robinson said: "Creativity is just as important as literacy." Kids need to be able to express their selves in something other than an essay. Sir Ken Robinson also states how in 2065 we will be retired and in most of the jobs we get in the future will not relate to what we learned in school.
Sir Ken Robinson's Ted Talk regarding "schools killing creativity" has some pretty great ideas and views on education. One thing that stood out to me is that how he he brought up how we are being educated for the future when we have no idea what the future is gonna look like, which I think is a pretty good point they are just trying our best to make us successful when they don't know what they are doing. And another great quote is "education grows us out of creativity" which I think is absolutely correct and something that most people are afraid to stay. He also makes some pretty amazing jokes. I feel like he didn't need to bring in the part about the arts being on the bottom because we all know that, it's just the way it is and not everyone wants the arts and we need math, science, and language arts for us to understand what's going on around us. I a hundred percent agree that education is focused around how failure and making mistakes is just so terrible, which isn't the way it should be we shouldn't be scared to mess up because it recks our brain and makes us always be aware of grades and what we are doing so we don't get the answer wrong. Gillian's story is very interesting I'm glad that the teacher just looked beyond what he would usually think and tried something that he knew was true and let her just let her creativity out in a way that would be different from what would be the normal mindset in the thirties.
I do believe that creativity should be a big part of school. Most students nowadays are depressed, in some kind of pain. Drawing is an amazing outlet. Yes, education is vary important for our yong minds, but the fact is, art- any kind- would help our minds and groth a ton.
"Schools killing creativity" by Sir Ken Robinson brings up a lot of interesting and very valid points about the way kids learn. Schools teach us to be uniform and not take any creative liberties, and they try to produce "professors" and not people whose passions are in artistic fields, as stated by Robinson. The job market has vastly changed since our teachers were in school, as now theres new jobs opening up every day, especially in creative fields; whereas adults, when they were our age, were taught that you can only get a job if you're well educated and have a degree. From a young age, we are taught to focus on mathematics and english, while the arts such as music or drama are less focused on. Robinson also brings up how everybody learns differently and how everyone's intelligence can be measured in three ways-how diverse, dynamic, and distinct it is. I think this idea is very interesting and definitely applicable to the school systems all over the world. In school, you are taught that "mistakes are proof that you are learning" while also we are being taught that making a mistake is the worst thing you can do. It's very hypocritical and confusing for young minds to try to make sense of. I overall enjoyed this video. It raised a lot of interesting points about education that I had never considered before.
Now more than ever, children are incredibly innovative because of their young minds paired with the major advancements in technology. Their ideas are though being squashed because of what they are focusing on, being literacy school work. They feel the challenge to meet the standards that schools have set because of the sheer amount of people that are their competition. Schools should prioritize active learning that will help children innovate which will shift their focus from getting good grades to coming up with new ideas and new inventions to make the world a better place.
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