Take a look and see how interesting it really is…
In this video he passionately talks about how the public education system does not value creativity as it does other subjects such as language and math. In his speech he goes on to discuss how we are born with creativity but as we mature we “grow out of it.”
Robinson defines creativity as ideas with value and importance. He says the body has been completely disregarded and the education system now only focuses on one region of our brains. I found it interesting when he said that creativity is now just as important as literacy. While I do think creativity is important, I cannot bring myself to agree with him. I feel that today’s standards require much more of a person that it did just a few years ago, from getting into a decent collage to getting a job, everything is changing. He even says how we students are told not to think about becoming an artist or musician because “there is no job in that” and there really are not many. Because of this fact I find that the stress on subjects such as mathematics and English to be necessary.
I do think that arts such as dance and theater are important and if someone is truly passionate about it, I believe they should go after their dream, but I, personally am not interested in such arts. My high school does a great job of providing me with the opportunity to find my passion and actually embrace creativity. My school has certainly not killed my creativity but rather, inspired me to be more creative. Therefore, while Robison did bring up some fascinating facts and thoughts I must disagree with him when it comes to schools destroying our creativity.
While looking around I found this portion of a ted talk and I thought it was really interesting. It is about a way to communicate to all audiences all across the world. Check it out it.
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