In class this week we watched a video of Ken Robinson's TED discussion on what he feels education is doing to creativity. He really goes in depth at how education today is causing kids to lose their ability to use their creative minds. After hearing his discussion, I have to agree with how he feels how kids are educated today is killing creativity.
During Mr. Robinson's lecture he talks about a young girl who was incapable of sitting still in class. When this girl was brought to the doctor to see what was wrong, he told her mother that she is a dancer. That girl was then enrolled in a dance studio and become a very successful dancer. Mr. Robinson feels that if she was acting that way today then she would have been put on medication to have her calm down. Usually her actions would be associated with ADD and most people who have that today are prescribed medication. He feels that if this girl was given medication to keep her from moving then they would not have realized that she would become a great dancer and an eventual famed choreographer.
I personally feel that education is killing creativity. Today schools always teach their students to do things the same way, what they are to be taught and how they are going to teach it. There is no change to the normal way of teaching and I feel this is what's killing creativity. Schools should teach more classes that require students to be more creative and not as much of using and remembering knowledge. If you use creativity to figure out problems and help better yourself than you are actually gaining knowledge.
Throughout my career as being a student I have had to use my creative side for multiple reasons. When it comes to doing projects and making visual presentations, I have had to be creative and figure out ways to present what my project is about. Whenever I have had to make something from scrap to visually show or represent something, I had to be creative or I would not get the inspiration to create it.
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