Blog Post #12

What can we learn from Sir Ken Robinson?




Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, the schools arts dropping out, and ADHD. All these points are very important points to discuss and worry about. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we are educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. This video tells us how we have been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance.





There are 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk Kin Robinson tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility. Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children in a creative way. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.





Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.Creativity expert Ken Robinson challenges the way we are educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.



To be honest, there will always be people who will put you down because you think of things that they don't or because you see things in a different way, but at the same time, in college, I have yet to run into a single instructor who has put me down for being creative. The instructors at my college South Alabama are always pushing their students to think outside the box and do their best no matter what the goal is. I'd have to say that college is a much better experience than high school ever was.