Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Schools Vs. Creativity?
What are your thoughts regarding Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation
regarding "schools killing creativity?" In your response, please
reflect, think, ponder, question, or wonder. Please complete this
blog response after watching the video.Your response is due by 2:30p.m. the day we watch the video in class.
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I agree with him because in school you are forced to think a certain way and act a certain way and believe h=a certain way too. When you enter the school building, your beliefs are immediately shut down. You are not allowed to talk about religion, which for some people is their entire way of life. Its hard to show your creativity in school because all most teachers do is give you a ton of homework to finish in little amounts of time, making kids worry about being wrong. Kids are so afraid of being wrong, that they never use their creativity because they are scared they will be wrong. In school, we are taught how to find the area of a square and annotating articles. We are never taught how to pay bills, how to apply for jobs, basically how to live life. School sucks up all of our freedom and creativity. Schools only ever look at your academic ability and how smart you are. Things most people are good at aren't used in school, so some kids are viewed as lesser, or academically lesser as well. They could be the smartest, most creative kid you know, but they will never see themselves that way because of that one B they got in math. School rips away our self pride and self confidence and destroys our self esteem.
I think that schools should harvest children's creativity more and add more artistic classes to schedules and not just focus on math and Language arts so much, but rather a class that will let their creativity show and expand, because I believe creativity is just as important as algebra, maybe even more. When I am grown up and working a job, when am I ever going to need to know how to solve 24x + 4= 60? But creativity, I can think of so many things that I could do with creativity. Colleges and jobs want original people, original ideas. That doesn't come from math, it comes from being creative and when you don't let children fully use their creative abilities, it will begin to start lacking as they grow older. Over all I think that every single school system should learn to help children creativity levels grow and expand, instead of trying to shape them.
I believe that he is right about the fact that schools are killing creativity. In schools today, everyone is taught the same thing, expected to act the same way, and the arts are in the shadows of subjects like science or math. Schools arent encouraging kids to be creative or to have ideas outside of the box, they are just looking for those who follow the rules and do everything the way they are told to do so. But as these kids are getting older, they won always be given step by step instructions or be told directly what is expected, theyĺl be at a loss and wont know what to do because they wouldnt have had any experience of being creative.
He believes that creativity is very important. He believes that you need to grow into creativity. He makes a good point that we teach math all the time when education doesn't teach dance. Some people need to move to think. I think that kids do need creativity to succeed in life. The whole world is engulfed in revolution. You don't need a degree to get a job now a days. His whole idea was creativity is key.
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Sir Ken Robinson says that education kills creativity. I do agree with him. We are taught to fit into the box. If you fit in the box and think the correct way you are intellegent. I recently took an IQ test and they asked questions similar to what do a grape and apple have in common? I answered “They are edible.” But the correct answer was they are fruits. So I got the question wrong and I am not intelligent. Or did I get the question wrong, technically yes I did not, but by the rules of the test I did not. I do not fit in the box, therefore I am not intelligent. But I am, I am really am intelligent. I just think differently. To get recognized as being intelligent I must be normal, meaning I cannot be myself and not to be creative. School kills creativity, it wants you to fit in the box and to have the textbook answer. If you are creative and answer a question that is not normal you are not intelligent. School teaches us to be intelligent you must not be creative and individual but must be normal and have a predictable answer. So yes, school is a murderer.
I enjoyed the thought of every child is born with creativity and they have imaginations, they just are taught to grow out of them. After a couple of years, school education only focuses on educating us with the essentials, but no imagination or creativity is incorporated in this school work. Schools tell kids that things are worthless if it is not going to be a profession. This encourages children to drop interests and hobbies because it isn’t going to impact their future or help them grow. This is so backwards and twisted because kids are being told what to do and what not to do in their outside life. Their creativity is discouraged and put down because it “isn’t important”.
He brings up strong points in the lecture. Every child is born with these talents and skills but schools just bring them down. Sure there are clubs and electives and I appreciate that. But why do we go to school? Of course to get an education and eventually get a job to get money. After getting that money you get a house and have a family then retire after 40 years of working. But why do you have to learn math equations if you're going to become a nurse? Why do you need science formulas if you’re going to become a lawyer? Another problem schools have are grades. Grades are most important or that's what school keep on reminding us. Grades do help but schools just focus a lot more on grades. When a teacher tells us that there's a test coming up, what's the first question a student asks? How many points are going to be on the test, what percentage of this is on our full grade, How many points are needed to pass? They are helpful questions but we shouldn’t only be focusing on the points of a test. That has affected students mentally, making us think too much about the points throughout the whole test.
I have to agree strongly with Ken Robinson, his point of how schools are draining creativity more that flourishing it seems correct. When you are born with a talent like art or academics, you love it and enjoy doing what version that it is that you do, like for example with art everyone has their own styles that fit that person like their own sort of peculiarity. Schools and other learning recourses are trying to put you into some sort of box on where you are expected to fit. Something that I was exposed to was when I took an art class in middle school, and I was told to draw an exact painting and to follow the exact design, when all I wanted to do was make it my own. It made me think “am I not allowed to make my own choices with my creativity?” It seemed dull. Schools should be helping you grow more with your talent and creativity when really it is killing it, it makes you think that you are not good enough or intelligent enough to make your own choices. So, more importantly Robinson’s point of how school murders creativity really opened my eyes in how it is so fitting.
I agree with Ken in this ted talk I do believe that school drains our creativity. In school you are taught to think in a particular mindset and if you don’t then you can’t expect to have good grades. We are born with so many undiscovered talents that just wait for us to find them but because school has such a focused center on math and English we are not able to do that. I agree with Ken that school puts you in a mental box that forces you to lose creativity and is very limited as to what is “acceptable”. For example agile minds in math is one of the most frustrating things to me because of how they word their questions and how picky they are. Schools don’t give kids the opportunity to think outside of the box, they just want everyone to follow the rules and do as they are told. Schools limit kids as to what they can and can’t do creativity wise and force kids to think and learn a certain way, slowly this will drain out all of the creativity in classrooms.
What are your thoughts regarding Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation regarding "schools killing creativity?" In your response, please reflect, think, ponder, question, or wonder. Please complete this blog response after watching the video.Your response is due by 2:30p.m. the day we watch the video in class.
My thoughts regarding Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation mainly revolve around how much I agree with him. He really pointed out several factors that were very important. Last year, I went to a school called Parker Performing Arts, and I realized that most of the things that they taught us in the classes, outside of the electives, were connected in some way to our electives. In literature, we learned about some Shakespeare, and acted out Romeo and Juliet. Coming to a bigger school, Arapaho, there is less of that, and some of my classes I have been struggling in because of the fact that it is so different from what I learned last year. In my younger years of learning, I remember my teachers telling me to turn certain math formulas into music, to help me remember them, but as I got older, that disappeared, and the social group makes fun of you in a sense, if you are seen singing math formulas down the hallway. This all has led me to agree with Robinson, because when going to school, you learn formulas and ways to figure out equations, but certain formulas that are taught in younger years, are looked down on and taught as false in older years. The arts are something that allow children to be creative and if that is taken away, certain parts of a child is being taken away. If you see those posts on the internet that say," My brain is 90% song lyrics", that is because, metaphorically, it is. Music, Art, Dance, etc, are all things that we develop and they all help us grow in different ways, that can also be academic. School is always said to be a place where kids make friends, but otherwise it seems like a prison to some. Schools, in a way, kill creativity because they try and get students to thing logically versus musically and metaphorically. They take a kids imagination, and turn it into something that makes you stop believing the most impossible things that once seemed possible. Growing up, you believe in mermaids, wear wolfs, vampires, etc, until you are TAUGHT not to. However, I do not believe that it is the schools entirely. I feel that it is the academics, and the way we learn them, along with the social group we learn them with.
Sir. Ken Robinson talked about a lot of important topics during his speech. One topic that stood out to me was when he said that creativity is the same thing as literacy. He strongly believes that creativity is very important when it comes to kids. He thinks it should be expressed and taught just as much as literacy is. Another phrase that he said was that all children are made artists. This stood out to me because it does seem true. All kids have such creative thoughts while they are young. They come up with the most amazing things that you don’t even know how they thought of that. As they grow up, that changes for most people. Most kids grow into the brain of an adult. They have this mature mind that only focuses on work, time, and money. The point that he is trying to get across seems to be that creativity needs to be more expressed in school. While children are very young, they have these bright minds that don’t have a care in the world. Then they go through school, and everything changes. Sr. Ken Robinson really made an impact on my thoughts with his speech.
I agree with Sir Ken Robinson because schools do drain out creativity. During school there are classes that are necessary to be taken,everyone learns the same thing and many of us have talents that we do not show and stay hidden. Schools do not show how to express your creativity, they show you what's going to "help you in your future", and no one thinks more only what is asked for. Many students forget about their hidden talents and only focus on what teachers ask them to and that decreases their creativity. Sir Ken Robinson had many great points during his speech.
I agree with him very much. We have rules and regulations to keep things in order, but when do rules and laws become too over powering? He was saying that in school we learn that mistakes are so terrible, but I think that it is not the mistake its self, but the way we look upon mistakes. You need creativity and imagination just as much as you need food or water. His speech did make me personally think about how things should change and why we should change them.
This lecture made me realize that each child is born with talents and skills of certain things, and school teaches them that that is wrong. School teaches kids that if you do not get good grades and succeed academically then you will not to well in life. This is what kids are taught the minute they enter kindergarten. In reality though, you do not need to be book smart to succeed , and you should do what makes you happy. We should not listen to the people who have the mindset that school work and job your whole life is the only way to go. You should do what makes you happy and what you like. If someone is talented in something and that is what they want to do, then they should study it and do what they want with there lives. Kids would be much happier in school if they could learn what they liked.
I agree with ken because schools have been taking creativity away, but not all of it. Teachers want us to think a certain way, a way they'll understand, but when we start thinking about things in our own way (that's where the creativity comes in) then they completely shut us down because they don't understand themselves. When we start getting creative with things it feels like your in your own little universe that the teachers and schools don't understand.If they take our creativity away then we are just back to the original answers that we don't get, or creativity helps us learn easier. The basic way teachers teach us sometimes confuse us so we like to think of it in a different way so we can understand it better.
I agree with Sir Ken Robinson's point about schools ignoring creativity and art. I think creativity is a important thing, schools do focus more on the 4 cores (Science, Language Arts, Math and Social Studies) then different Art. When you grow up and have to get a job, you have to be creative for pretty much every job. If schools were to teach dance, art and music as much as they teach the 4 main cores kids would become more and more creative each day. Like Sir Ken Robinson said about the girl that could not focus during school just sitting there and listening, but then she started dance and kept practicing dance and started a dance school and her own ballet company.It just proved that school is not always for everyone. If you have a good creativity, use it, you don't always have to do what society tells you.
In the ted talk I agree with Ken that I believe that school drains our creativity. In school you are taught to learn things in a certain way whether you are good or not everyone in the class have to learn it in a same way. When you are in school you are slowly losing your creativity because you have to learn it as your teacher teaches you. I would say school is just trying to control your mind with rules, regulations, schoolwork, everything about school the moment you walk in the building. But when you step outside you have many ideas about anything and you are able to learn things quick like look up in the news on your phone, or anything. I would say school is more of mental prison.
Sir Ken Robinson’s video presentation regarding “schools killing creativity” has allowed me to realize that the traditional way is not always the best way. Nobody can tell what will come in the future. If adults continue to convince kids there is only one right way, our world will become simpler. Each child is unique and has their own special skill set. There is no right or wrong way to live life. Kids should have the opportunity to express themselves, because that will give them the freedom to truly figure out who they are. If kids know what they are passionate about at a young age, it will be easier to find a profession they adore and want to participate in. I agree with Robinson that schools are draining our creativity because they focus only on “core” subjects, and things like art, dance and music are left as electives and clubs. Schools tell students exactly what they want to see from them in every class, instead of letting kids explore and experiment. Children’s colors are being drained for no good reason because by the time they move on to college and a working job; what they were taught in their eighth grade year of middle school will no longer be relevant. Clearly, creativity is a major factor of why the human race is so interesting and constantly growing, therefore it should be preserved and fought for.
In the Ted Talk, I agree with Sir Ken Robinson. Schools make certain subjects required and others like the arts not much of a big deal. Like my middle school you didnt have to have an art class of any sort but you had to take the standard classes and pe. There are students where they will never used the skills they learned. They dont make arts a priority when it is. In some way everyone is creative and when schools dont encourage that, people cant be happy and live the life they want. Schools and the older generation shut down students who want to have a career in that industry. So yes, I think Ken's point in the video was very true and is an issue that only the next generation can change the education system to help keep creativity alive.
I agree with the Ted Talk, Sir Ken Robinson made very important points. His opinion is schools are taking away kids creativity which is true if you put some thought in it. School has requirements, there are required courses, required assignments and a required dress code. The assignments in school do allow for some creativity but not to a kids full extent. A child shouldn't be held back in my opinion kids should be allowed to have creativity to a full extent. In school people shouldn't have requirements on creativity I think kids should be able to let loose because creativity is a lifelong skill. Without creativity the world would be very bland, therefor schools should allow student more creativity with out restrictions or guidelines.
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