TEDx talks: Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
15 years and this is still relevant. When will schools realise that grades aren’t a fair way to test effort and just impose the notion that failure is wrong? I could only hope some brilliant people would think of a way to design school and the whole system such that kids learn and teachers teach, where everyone does their job in an environment that fuels each kid’s interests and potential.
Do schools kill creativity? Making an entire class write something they have no interest in and forcing them to have X number of words. Yes. I would say it does. It kills the desire to learn. I hate it when you do something a certain way that works efficiently and correctly, but the teacher gets mad because it’s not the way you’re supposed to do it.
This was the best Ted Talk I’ve seen so far. The humour along with his thoughts made this very enjoyable.
I’m a high school student, and I’ve noticed that they push the idea of secondary school as a goal and not an option. Unfortunately, things haven’t changed since then.
I also loved this quote:
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original”
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