Do schools kill creativity?
<< thoughts by POPS at 9:47 PM on Sunday, March 15, 2009
Peep the words from Sir Ken Robinson. This is a very intriguing and at-times, hilarious 20-minute speech from 2006 that embodies some heavy food for thought.
a few of the concepts shared:
a few of the concepts shared:
- If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
- We stigmatize mistakes.
- We are educating people out of their creative capacity.
- We get educated out of creativity.
- Every education system has the same hierarchy with math & language at the top and arts at the bottom.
- Some people have to move in order to think.
1 Comments:
sometimes i feel as if the human race is going to eat itself alive. a lot of us care about the "bottom line," both in education and business. i am glad to see that other people are seeing that there needs to be a shift in focus when determining what is important.
3/16/2009 6:09 PM
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