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March 24th Video I
March 24, 2009 by kgrabeman
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
I enjoyed the video by Sir Ken Robinson. I firmly believe that schools should think out of the box when it comes to students needs. I agree that all children are born with creativity but its through standards of expectations that students become as “one” and lose their creative thoughts. I ponder my own sometimes. I feel myself through grade school, but especially as a college student that I have lost a great deal of creativity. At one time in my life improv was fun and easy, drawing and painting came naturally, simplistic ideas flowed like water in a stream. Now as I make my way through the education system I feel my intellect and knowledge is becoming crystalized. After being forced to read certain books all the time, and not really having the opportunity to let myself enjoy a book that I want to read, paint a wonderful oil painting, or let my mind explore new areas, think on the fly I feel that I have lost a certain amount of creativity even before watching this video. I feel its incredibly sad. Our education system is like a commodity chain. Students are the raw material, education is value added, the output is a trained and highly specialized individual. but can this individual have personal fulfillment through his or her education, so to release a creative spirit inside? I think schools in some respects should reconsider what they want the true final product of education to be.
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on April 13th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
How do you think we could avoid putting our students’ creativity to a halt? When I was a senior in high school I had to teach a lesson about poetry in my English class and brought in fingerpaints and taught about imagery. My classmates thought it was silly, but had a great time. But we can’t fingerpaint in high school all of the time… Or can we? What do you think?