Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
by frankiespeakin 4 Replies latest jw friends
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James Brown
Schools teach how everybody else did it and what they did.
Creativity is a gift of the Gods, or your muse.
I'm thinking of art,
if your dealing with science you at least need school to learn the ingredients and
how they combine.
But creativity is often found outside of the box.
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Mum
American schools are still run, as far as I know, on the factory model although we live in a high-tech society. Everything is regimented and lowbrow for people who are going to sort screws for a living. Why does an assembly line worker need to be creative?
As Pink Floyd so aptly put it, "We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control."
I was reading a novel once in which a upper class English "gentleman" was arguing against allowing "the great unwashed" to learn to read. He said that no man who could read would ever go down into a coal mine.
So, if we teach kids to think and come up with new ideas, they might have a sense of self-worth and not settle for living on minimum wage with government subsidies or being controlled by their corporate masters.
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Oubliette
Frankie, thanks for sharing. I've only just watched the first video but really appreciate Mr. Robinson's points!
They tie in nicely with some personal projects that I'm just working on!!!