Blog 6 Talk review on creativity

Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. He says that all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly. He says that creativity is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. And I completely agree with Sir Ken Robinson.

In schools of Chile, as in every place in the world, teach you obedience and respect, punctuality and discipline. And I’m not saying that is wrong, but who cares about being spontaneous or creative? I always thought that so many rules only achieve to uniform like all of us were robots with the same serial number.

He says that if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’re never come up with anything original. The children lost this capacity when they become in adults. He says that we’re now running national education system where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And this is sad but true. Is for this reason that most people—I am—are afraid to make mistakes, afraid to be wrong. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creativity capacities.

He says that arts are as important that math or languages for the education. The schools shouldn’t steer away from thing that you like just because you never get a job doing that. Because nobody knows the future. And maybe you can be a dancer or a singer or anything you want.

Well, the idea of Sir Ken Robinson is that we have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we’re educating our children. And our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future.

Sir Ken Robinson in his talks he keeps audience paying attention to him with funny stories and jokes. It’s really nice to see his presentation.