"school kills creativity"

Hi! Today, I’m going to write about an interesting video that I saw. This video shows a conference of Ken Robinson in this conference he talks about the creativity, schools and society. He says that the human creativity is extraordinary and has an unpredictable evolution. Moreover he tells us that all children are born with great creativity, but when they start to grow little by little they lose their creativity.

Why? This happens because the school kills creativity, the school doesn’t teach creativity. It is reflected at moment that we see that children hasn’t afraid to make mistakes but they are stigmatized by school when they make mistakes. I think that it is very surprising because if you don’t make mistakes you will never be creative.

Furthermore the school believes that the there are subjects more important than other, so mathematics and language are more important than music, art and painting. Then the school educates the hemisphere that is related to the rational, forming in the things that are useful for the production. I think that isn’t correct because the school should educate to children in all aspects and not only for the needs of capitalism, should deliver a integral education.

For it, is necessary to rethink our views about the intelligence, because Ben Robinson say that intelligence has the characteristics of dynamic, diverse and distinct.

I liked this video because it invites us to rethink the principles of education that are being given to children and the importance of creativity.