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Wednesday 2 June 2010

Do Schools Kill Creativity?


Well, the topic is very interesting and a little complicated too.
First of all, I have to say the person who was speaking about the topic is the creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson, he looked really funny and he made people laugh all time...It was great.
On the other hand, I know wich is main at the listening activity is just to listen, but it is too hard for me, I think I do not have a developed capacity for hear people speaking english. It is necessary to practice, I think...
Getting back to the main topic, Mr. Robinson talks about nowadays societies must to create new education systems wich are more linked to treasure creativity, because actually they undermine it, he said.
Also Mr. Robinson said actually the educational system arround the world does not acknowledge the multiple types of creativity. I think it is true, because when you are child sometimes people (may be somebody of your family, or teachers, or friends, etc) can suppress you. If you are at school in a boring class of maths and you like drawing and you take a pencil and then you do a big shape on your classroom wall, you are in danger. So, you have two things: the first the bigger scold of your life gave by your teacher, then by the principal and then by your mother or your father (It is only an example, I know I am exaggerating a lot, but you can follow the main idea) and the second one, the situation generates on you a felling of apprehension to drawing. Similar to a traumatic experience. They do not see, you can be a painter or a muralist. They suppress your creativity, they do not enhance your capacities. It is linked to a thing Mr. Robinson said: children are born artists! And I think it has sence...societies must to rethink their educational systems, make them more friendly and closer to children.

1 comment:

  1. remain an artist is hard, isn't it?
    i remember being suppressed during childhood.
    basically, if you don't do what they WANT you to do, then you're not doing it right.
    So no freedom... how are we supposed to be creative professionals now?

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