TED video by Sir Ken Robinson
Do schools kill creativity?
We see extraordinary evidence of human creativity, in the variety of it and the range of it. But what's gonna happen in the future? All kids have talents and we squander them quite ruthlessly. The education needs a radical change.
Changing Education Paradigms: Do schools destroy creativity?
Everyone is interested in education
Everyone is interested in education. Partly because the education that's meant to take us to the future that we cannot now grasp.
No body has a clue what the world is gonna look like in 5 years, yet we have to educate the kids for the world after 20-30 years.
Every education system in the world has the same subjects. Like if the whole purpose of the education is to produce university professors. Our education system is predicated on our academic ability. They look upon our body as a way to transport our heads.
The reason is, the education is a product of the industrial revolution. There was no system of education before 19 century. Academic ability came to dominate our view of intelligence. And the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they are not.
Creativity is as important in education as literacy
All kids have talents and we squander them quite ruthlessly. Kids are not frightened to be wrong. If we are not prepared to be wrong we cannot be creative. Yet until children grow up we are educating out of this capacity. So until we grow we are educated out of creativity.
Can you imagine if Shakespeare was treated as a child in this way; "Stop speeking like that, it's confusing everybody", "Put down the pencil and go to bad now".
We are put away as children from what we like to do.
We have to rethink the whole education system
We live now in an age were degree is not that important for work. We need to radically rethink our view of intelligence. The whole structure of education is shifting under our feet.
First, Intelligence is diverse. We think of our world in all the ways we are experiencing it. We think visually, we think in sound, we think abstract, we think in movement.
Secondly, intelligence is dynamic - very interactive. Many of the ideas come from interactions even between the different subjects.
The present education system is not gonna serve us for the future. We need to adopt a new conception that will not strip the children of their creativity and imagination. Our task is to educate the whole being and prepare them for the future which we may not live to see, but they will.
Do schools kill creativity?
We see extraordinary evidence of human creativity, in the variety of it and the range of it. But what's gonna happen in the future? All kids have talents and we squander them quite ruthlessly. The education needs a radical change.
Changing Education Paradigms: Do schools destroy creativity?
Everyone is interested in education
Everyone is interested in education. Partly because the education that's meant to take us to the future that we cannot now grasp.
No body has a clue what the world is gonna look like in 5 years, yet we have to educate the kids for the world after 20-30 years.
Every education system in the world has the same subjects. Like if the whole purpose of the education is to produce university professors. Our education system is predicated on our academic ability. They look upon our body as a way to transport our heads.
The reason is, the education is a product of the industrial revolution. There was no system of education before 19 century. Academic ability came to dominate our view of intelligence. And the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they are not.
Creativity is as important in education as literacy
All kids have talents and we squander them quite ruthlessly. Kids are not frightened to be wrong. If we are not prepared to be wrong we cannot be creative. Yet until children grow up we are educating out of this capacity. So until we grow we are educated out of creativity.
Can you imagine if Shakespeare was treated as a child in this way; "Stop speeking like that, it's confusing everybody", "Put down the pencil and go to bad now".
We are put away as children from what we like to do.
We have to rethink the whole education system
We live now in an age were degree is not that important for work. We need to radically rethink our view of intelligence. The whole structure of education is shifting under our feet.
First, Intelligence is diverse. We think of our world in all the ways we are experiencing it. We think visually, we think in sound, we think abstract, we think in movement.
Secondly, intelligence is dynamic - very interactive. Many of the ideas come from interactions even between the different subjects.
The present education system is not gonna serve us for the future. We need to adopt a new conception that will not strip the children of their creativity and imagination. Our task is to educate the whole being and prepare them for the future which we may not live to see, but they will.
