Creatively Killing Creativity

For this blog post we were asked to discuss a ted talk we were interested in. I typed in “popular ted talk’s” and I found “Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?” to have the most views and decided it must be important.
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.

The Academy Of Denmark

If I was told to put the story of Hamlet into a different time and place I would envision it some time in the 21st century, when Hamlet has graduated from high school and is leaving for collage. Characters such as Hamlet, Ophelia, Barnardo and Francisco, Horatio, Marcellus Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and other like them would all be recently graduated students from the Academy of Denmark, the most prestigious high school in the nation generating hundreds of thousands in revenue every year. Ophelia, being Hamlets high school sweetheart has even decided to follow Hamlet to the collage of his dreams so that they could be together. But Laertes being the protective older brother and star quarterback he is an object of Hamlet and their relation ship. The whole city knows of Hamlet and everything involved in their lives because everyone who is anyone has graduated from this academy. The story would begin with Hamlet opening the door to the dorm room of the collage of his dreams. As he steps in, he receives a call, a call that would lead to a set tragic of events, a call that his father, founder and dean of the Academy of Denmark has passed away. With the call comes news that his mother will be wed within hours to his uncle, Claudius and that he being the next in line will ascend the “throne” and become dean of the academy. And so the story would begin.
Act 1 Scene 1
As Bernardo and Francisco, two rebellious, troublesome brothers, empty their lockers and prepare to leave for collage they encounter their old friends Horatio and Marcellus. They all decide to take one last walk though memory lane on the beautiful campus of the academy and reminisce over all the mischievous things they did which resulted in suspensions received in the dean’s office. As they begin their walk a gust passes over them, minutes later the silhouette or a man passes before them and as they turn the corner the boys find the deceased dean of school standing before them saying “Fear what is to come, for we are all in trouble.”
And Scene.