Do schools kill creativity?, for Sir Ken Robinson

Hello everybody!: Today I’m going to write about the video of Sir Ken Robinson with theme "Do Schools Kill Creativity?". The first, what is creativity for him? Is a process of having original ideas that have value. Concerning the three themes in this conference:

1. - Extraordinary evidence of human creativity: This is a case of Gillian Lynne; she is a choreographer of “Cats” and “Phantom of the opera”. Her history begins in the ’30s, in the school think she has a learning disorder, she and her mother was a specialist and after 20 minutes of conversation the specialist says: “Mrs. Lynne, Gillian isn’t sick he’s a dancer take to dance school” and now is a multi-millionaire choreographer.

2. - Education: In this point he talked about the education system and more specific of public education. What is the educational problem? The people are not prepared to be wrong but stigmatize mistakes, and the first solution is: running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make, because the public education is to produce university professor, and the vicious circle of mistake never stop. And by the time they get to be adults more kids have lost that capacity of creativity.

Every education system on the earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. So the hierarchy is rooted on two ideas:

1. - That the most useful subjects or the work are at the top

2. - Academy ability

3. - Extraordinary capacities that children have their capacities for innovation: For he all kids have tremendous talents and quotes Picasso one said, this; “all children are born artists the problem is to remain as we grow up”, because that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it or we get educated out of it. As children grow up, we star to educate them progressively from the wants up, and the end we focus on their heads. For the educators the body is a form of transport for their heads.

And with extra-point Sir Ken Robinson say that we kwon there tings about intelligence:

1. - Diverse

2. - Dynamic

3. - Distinct

For end this task, my personal opinion with the theme, and the position of Sir Ken Robinson, is to support because is true that school kill creativity, we can see at the pre-school and the first years at primary school, the children play anything with much imagination, but as they grow lost all imagination for play, and the creativity dead. Also the children with learning disorder takes pills (Ritalin) for to reassure them during class. This kill will creativity of children for a mistake for the adults.